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what in the relative proportions of these two principles or tendencies. There must be a golden mean, or average line of being, dwelling in the just proportion of these two principles or tendencies, from which line varieties branch off, only for the purpose of variety as heretofore explained. There is one style of human being nearer in harmony with nature—nearer in the due proportion of animal and spiritual forces than all others. What is that style of being is an interesting study; there may be room for experiment, also, on the proper method of attaining that style.

A general idea of what any age esteems the true symmetry of human nature will be gained from an examination of their religious notions, and the aims pursued in their education of the young. In the beginning of the Christian era, courage, strength of body, fortitude, and truth, were the noblest of attainments,—and this strength and greatness found their proof only in the field of battle. But Christ taught men that it was nobler to suffer blows than to give them,—as, indeed, it requires more fortitude and general magnanimity,—and this magnanimity was to be proven by consistency with conscience in a spirit of universal benevolence, in defiance of suffering, danger, and death. The great heart of humanity swells with holy emotion at the memory of this Glorious Being, the only recorded embodiment of man's ideal of moral greatness. Men have disputed whether he was God or man; he was of God doubtless, (if that may mean any thing,)—born for an immortal destiny, and a name that shall stand ever first in the calendar of human names. That he was the One God,