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Let every man consult with perfect wisdom his individual interest, and the ends which society contemplates will be gained. The application of self-interest accounts for all man's social relations. If he suffers for his own ignorance and folly, so does he suffer for the defects of others, and these others for his; and his policy includes not only his own advancement but that of all with whom he is associated. Thus are we. bound together. Benevolence—evangelization — all reformatory effort is our plain policy as a mass. For this we print books, found schools, hospitals, asylums, prisons, states, laws, all features of the body politic. Some of these bear the reputation of pure benevolence,—for all men do not see their policy, and some object to be taxed for them: yet they are politic, and the sure outgrowth of crescent civilization. And we shall not affirm but that time may remove some of these institutions by the light of the same policy in which they, now exist.

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