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every pride must be humbled, and every envy comforted in the sight of foreign misfortune. This is the office of that "great Nemesis, who never yet of human wrong left the unbalanced scale." If one end of the beam is up, the other will be down. If one end of the needle is positive, the other must be negative. How else can one be positive than while the other is negative? If one end of a piece of mechanism has motion, the opposite end has power: you cannot add to the motion without adding to the power; nor the converse. You cannot make perpetual motion for want of perpetual power: yet there is perpetual motion, and the secret of it lies in the only safe of the universe—the infinite force of God. So is perpetual happiness a secret in the same keeping; and the same balance that exists in the principles of power and motion, or of positive. and negative in electricity, or in the variation of the waves from the proper perimeter of the globe, exists in the pain and pleasure of the soul, and in the whole moral world. We do not ask this of experience or observation; it is a deduction from the great premise of our treatise, the necessity of one God.

Yet turn to experience, and according to the force and subtilty of the intellect applied, you will see the compensation of all calamity, and the evil of all good that is good only by law.

There is a saying of Edmund Burke, that no man had ever a point of pride that did not injure him, nor a defect that did not serve him. The crippled leg makes the cautious traveller, and spares the head many a bruise. There was once a stag that was

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