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e honitying tbaa tb&t paradiso was happy and hold a picture far 1 lately drew of But of theiw physical iiU 1 would make frlcnder accoiialt if ihey brought not in Iheir tmin monl and intellectunl miKcliiefs. AM tbc time, unxicly. and thou^c, which are thus consuined in procur> iixg food and raiment from the aij^gord earth, are abiitTBcted from the care of our spiritual put. which, for want of care, grows dull and expires ill moKt men, wbo never come to know the exist- ence of the spiritual man, or that they are augbt else hut the labouring, meat-coitsumin^ creatoret who was bom, and lived, and died like another aniniaL In olhere, th^^ possession of better meat and drink, and clothing, and accommodation, iM'get »i]c)i vaiD, boastful, ami tyranuical humiHin that to tb«r animal beti]){ of tito fuimcr. a certi^^ infernal being is conjoined, that makes them bal^l fol and hating one another. And io others tha knowledge of the earth* of its elements a pcrtics, aiHl productions, the science, aa called, of nature i which, to my mind, lueana no niore than the principles of art, the underittand- ing upon whieh workmen proceed, (so that scientific mun aa-, as it were, the ma&tfiia moving workmen,)— this science or knowledge turning brute matter to account, be it cbeiwcd. mechanical, or historical, doth work in the minds of tho«e who have it a pride aiui sclf-snffieieac5 over which the angeU migbt smile, if the cons#- queuces which follow it did not mther turn their smiles to weeping. In all these throo clasaca, the labourers, the pos&e8sor5, the scientific direct hatli this paltry thing of hading food and raime lana- v.] TKK CUtt^K A» TO KOniLT LABiiVlf. 1049 or some of ihc )uxurii-« and vflaitie^ tliereoa graft- ed, shrouded up and extinguished to their feeling all sense of an immortal ^ipiritual pari destined to hold communion with tilings whicb exist not upon the c;arlh, mid wheref)r »11 thait existetli upon xhc Mrth in but a brokcrii rcprfstrnlaliou. To tliom God is, as if he were not, to them bis providence n not apparent, or his f^oodnecs felt : they ^ee uot hid bounty in what tbcy possess, nor use it for tiourishing the divine parts of their being, but they ore earthly, M?nsuaK and oHcn dcvjIiKh. And, to prown their dehaFiemcnt, not oiil* reels that he is dcbuKed, I ^aid Adam would have died sooner than yoke into suc^i a slavery, but that hig ptetjr was not exlinguished. But hi& posterity are so deeply sunk th&t they take u nneni m tbcir skill at handicraft: in tUeir inven