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comes out hard. And the more life there is in us the harder we die. The animal compensates the spiritual, and the spiritual compensates the animal. Bodily pleasures detract from the spiritual fortune. Sensuality, intemperance, the use of tobacco and opium, all have a spiritual price. Anodynes, cathartics, diuretics, all have accounts with each other. And the nobler virtues and attainments cost also. Learning costs labor; memory costs experience; fortitude costs trial and suffering; charity costs money; and proven courage costs danger and the risk that so often ends in wooden legs, and medals that had as well been leather.

We mark this compensation in nature, and somewhat among brutes. The severity of the climate brings forth in time the fur necessary to make it comfortable: even torrid animals, taken to frigid zones, become so pilous in time as to endure the climate. All animals not otherwise protected grow hairy in winter. The horse too poor to own a blanket soon shivers himself into the favor of nature, and he gets a blanket that will not blow off until spring. Thus there is a compensation between heat, or fat, and hair. There are many nostrums for making hair grow: these are the best ones: cold and indigestion.—The storm is terrible; but the storm is only the other end of that sultry heat which is necessary to the creamy pulp of every pleasant fruit. And as storms cure the air, diseases cure the body of man. Disease is the balancing of the books of bodily life. Suppose there should come no compensation after-

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