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fortnight. These excesses remind man of his possible destiny, and, as promises, are beneficial to the soul; and their benefit to the soul reacts upon the body which at first suffers by them. Corpulation is a bodily excess; the body is immediately weakened thereby; and perhaps no brute is at any time the better for it. But man is. Perfect continence is good for a time; yet in a few months the mind is injured thereby; the spirits lose elasticity; a source of joy, anticipation, and memory is cut off; and the body suffers in the want of this exercise of the mind, unless the mind be philosophically fortified.—For these reasons, based upon practical life, we must conclude that if life is to advance at all, (which we have not presumed) we shall prefer that our joys and sorrows be scattered over each life, without regard to rotation in their degrees of intensity. We shall prefer a foretaste of the future, by way of assurance, stimulus, and consolation. We would not wish to feel that we are climbing toward the infinite one round at a time. Rather would we scan this life while each new day should vary our weird path, and bring us we know not what or where,—and then let the Power suddenly take us by the hand and jerk us through the blue universe a myriad leagues at once, till the status of every advance shall charm us as the resurrection of the dead. We may be affrighted—we will be affrighted,—we may suffer — we will suffer,—but! thou infinite Perfection, bid us not hourly remember that the Tower of Baal was no nearer to heaven than the rock it stood on!