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tions for labour they have a glory : and in having accumulated fruilx of laliour^ which are the wages of drudgery, they pride themitelveaf ; and if ihey can get a piece of the earth s soil, and have a {jood many labouring on it, their glory ht complete. The hit^icr faculties of tlie humun soul have thuN become the slaves of the lower, grosser ap- petites : to eat, and drink, and be sheltered, hath become %o refined and intricate a work, as to be the foundation of almost every art and trade upon the earth. To satisfy hunger, thirst, clothing, and shelter; that if, to supply the table, the cellar, the wardrobe, and the house, hath become, through the nursing and stimulating of our physical tastes, so Btu)>cndous a vrofk, and the dignity and honour of human life is so conne<;te(I therewith, and indeed built thereon, th^t, where iff the man who can say nine tenths of all his time, a T 1050 THE CUnSK ABTOftODlLT LAIUIUIC. [Dit. of all his thoughts, of all his care zni anxiety, have Dot been oousumed therewith ! If Dot with tbelH lhtQg», I a^k with what arc we Dot all takca up? Do you &ay» with gratilj'in^ otir various But what ta»Uw^ ta^lfji phyi^ical, not spjril that IB, tastes which would have no existe were there no senses in the body, and do oui world whereon to beiitow their atteotion, which conscqacnily can have no exiatciKO i the body is in tlic dust, and the vision of the wo is vanished. Do tou say. We are taken up wi the cuitiTation uf the scieaceii. Dut what acieo Sciences which treat of matter in sotne of forms, or of the uoderetaading as it nets u thet^ : but surely not sciences which treat of epiritua) part of man, or of its rcbtions to apintual and etcmal; which scioacea, once puled in ihe 1x11(1, hiivealiiiui>!l iirtparltf<l from public schools, Aud even the aciciices of justJOli aud ihe government of states, they are baatei^ to found upon tbe came base foundations of teo- poral advantiif^c and wcaltb-makin^: ao that I think, unless the tide turn» wc ^ball trum ooe end ofthe community to the other, be no better thia a set of earthy worldlings, who seek for no rtcrpff nobler faculties than to forecaat temporal advan- tage, and lay hold of it when it is reach. There are therefore three distinct which the curse Eook hold upon llw ni^le natvrr and condition of oar race. First, it ground ihea down with toils, than which nothing tends norr to the humiliation o(^ the mmd* SecoDdly, M directed the powera of ihc undcratanduig to o^ jecta terminating msenaaaJ enjoyment.