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XCI-MAN'S PHYSICAL AND MENTAL SUPERIORITY.

1. Man's grand distinction is his intellect his mental capacity. It is this which renders him highly and peculiarly responsible to his Creator.

2. It is on account of this that the rule over other animals is established in his hands; and it is this, mainly, which enables him to exercise dominion over the powers of nature, and to subdue them to himself.

3. But it is true, also, that his own animal organization gives him superiority, and is among the most wonderful of the works of God on earth. It contributes to cause, as well as prove, his elevated rank in creation.

4. His port is erect, his face toward heaven, and he is furnished with limbs which are not absolutely necessary to his support or locomotion, and which are at once powerful, flexible, capable of innumerable modes and varieties of action, and terminated by an instrument of wonderful, heavenly workmanship-the human hand.

5. This marvelous physical conformation gives man the power of acting with great effect upon external objects in pursuance of the suggestions of his understanding, and of applying the results of his reasoning power to his own purposes. Without this particular formation he would not be a man, with whatever sagacity he might have been endowed.

6. No bounteous grant of intellect, were it the pleasure of Heaven to make such grant, could raise any of the brute creation to an equality with the human race.

7. Were it bestowed on the leviathan, he must remain, nevertheless, in the element where alone he could maintain his physical existence; he would still be but the in

hapen inhabitant of the ocean, "wallowing, ormous in his gait."

the elephant made to possess it, it would but he deformity of his own structure, the unhis frame, though "the hugest of things," to act on external matter, and the degrading own physical wants, which led him to the gave him for his favorite home the torrid tropics.

placing the king of Babylon sufficiently out of human beings, though he carried all his culties with him, when he was sent away to

The sexton, tolling his bell at noon,
Deems not that great Napoleon

Stops his horse, and lists with delight,
While his files sweep round yon Alpine height;
Nor knowest thou what argument

Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.

2. All are needed by each one;

Nothing is fair or good alone.

3. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven,
Singing at dawn on the alder bough;

I brought him home, in his nest, at even;
He sings the song, but it pleases not now,
For I did not bring home the river and sky;-
He sang to my ear-they sang to my eye.

4. The delicate shells lay on the shore;
The bubbles of the latest wave
Fresh pearls to their enamel gave,
And the bellowing of the savage sea
Greeted their safe escape to me.

5. I wiped away the weeds and foam,

I fetched my sea-born treasures home;
But the poor, unsightly, noisome things
Had left their beauty on the shore,

With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar

6. The lover watched his graceful maid, As 'mid the virgin train she strayed, Nor knew her beauty's best attire

Was woven still by the snow-white choir.

At last she came to his hermitage,

Like the bird from the woodlands to the cage ;-
The gay enchantment was undone

A gentle wife, but fairy none.

7. Then I said, "I covet truth;

Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat;

I leave it behind with the games of youth."

8. As I spoke, beneath my feet

The ground pine curled its pretty wreath,
Running over the club-moss burs;

I inhaled the violet's breath;

Around me stood the oaks and firs;

Pine cones and acorns lay on the ground;
Over me soared the eternal sky,
Full of light and of deity;

9. Again I saw, again I heard

The rolling river, the morning bird ;—
Beauty through my senses stole;

I yielded myself to the perfect whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. The poems of Emerson are so elevated in their tone, and are so far removed from the jingle of rhyme and rhythm, and express such subtleties of thought, that a beginner makes very little "rhyme or reason" out of them. They belong to the class of literature called "oracles." Like the hymns of the Veda, the lyrics of Orpheus and of Pindar, or the Zoroastrian scriptures, they belong to a serene height, and will grow more and more in honor.

Il. Hĕif'-er (hěf'-), yield'-ed, bŭb'-bleş, treas'-ureş (trězhʼurz), VI′-Olet's breath (brěth).

III. Make a list of twelve words with the prefixes super or hyper (meaning over); also a list of twelve words with the prefixes sub.and hypo (mean