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al; in the foarth, tellcctual and moral. jTbc qucflttoD, therefore, of the iroprovcm of the people, is & question of manifold relatio and of difficult sutution, rL-quiring ibc aid instrumentality of every class and order mtn; of lawf^ivers to derise good laws, and govcmora to adminfBter ri^bteoas ^veramea of masters to set good exani|>les, and of to give good )D&tructtoofltothe children ^ of sckocc to open np the rerenues of industry, and of con* merce to brin^ home its rewards; kouwlL*dge ii necessary to bcg^t c^nierpnTie, and morala to be- get character, and innocent amusemeaia to beget cbccrfulncsff, and works of art to begot taste ; aid a thousand other things %\'hich it h the part ofU philu^upbcr to didcuver and expound. This, if may so speak, is the natural method by whicb man i^ tii be improved in hii^ condition; and the method by whicb ht< halti been improved, ia the absence of that spiritual mothod which it pro- perly foils to my proriDcc to expound. And, whiltf I am expounding the spiritual method of ctiltirat* ing the nature of man, as nn indindual, and a mcmbiT of ^ocitriy, let no one fancy 1 oppoae mys«lf to the other, which, in the ab«wco <^re- vehtion, in the only one that remains. Nor doth rovoiatJon set ua icdopendciu of the other, bvl prc]kQrcth the 9oil for it. and hastenrtb onwan] its slow moving progression. It begets ikew tastai all at once, the taRtee of thespiriluil man, wbich unlock ihc soul of i^UivvaDd poasani, aod prioci; of high and low, from its impiiajQincQl, Rjid n* Vvl THb CURSC A& TO BODILY LADOVK. 1071 cloftp tlic b&dc influenced which low and sensual tauten had orcr him ; and giTC hira liberty for ihe cullivaliou t^f i\lu^c jult^lkctuul aiidKocial, and higher sensual tasivs, which th43 lower sensual taciea destroy, and which onlycome to life as thoso lower tnstca arc restrained, which Ihcy arc eHec* tuaily by tliCAtem and abiding influence of spiritual things. Let us Userefore go into this spiritnal in> quiry unbiassi'd; fot it Rghts against no good de- sign of philosophy or philanthropy, or ta^e, but clears the way for their operation. There was a class of people amongst the fiml Christians whose condittou was de^^rudod beyond nut only any instance, but almost beyond the com- pFeheuMon,ormudern times, — >T.h6slavesurservants so often Bpuken of in the writings of the Apostle Paul. Tbey had no protection of law, bcine; in their master's power even unto the severest forms of deaths They oould own no property, and did transmit tolhcirprogcny only the heritage of their fa(h4;rs