n unanswerably proved by an accumulation of unquestionable
testimony. Most persons, however, allow the senses to remain uneducated,
except as they may be cultivated by fortuitous circumstances. Eyes have
they, but they see not; ears have they, but they hear not; neither do
they understand. It is not impossible, nor perhaps improbable, that he
who has these two senses properly cultivated will derive more unalloyed
pleasure in spending a brief hour in gazing upon a beautiful landscape,
in examining for the same length of time a simple flower, or in
listening to the sweet melody of the linnet as it warbles its song of
praise, than those who have neglected the cultivation of the senses
experience during their whole lives!

This subject commends itself to all who regard their individual
happiness, or who desire to render their usefulness as extensive as
possible. Upon parents, teachers, and clergymen, who are more
immediately concerned in the correct education of the rising generation,
its claims are imperative. Let them be met, in connection with other
appropriate means now in use and hereafter to be put in requisition, and
our schools can not fail to become increasingly attractive; truancy,
hence, will be less frequent, and the benign influences resulting from
the correct education of the _whole man_ will inspire the benevolent and
philanthropic to renewed and increased efforts to secure the right
education of _all men_, a condition upon which the maximum of human
happiness depends.

CHAPTER VII.

THE NECESSITY OF MORAL AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

The exaltation of talent, as it is called, above virtue and
religion, is the curse of the age. Education is now chiefly a
stimulus to learning, and thus men acquire power without the
principles which alone make it a good. Talent is worshiped; but if
divorced from rectitude, it will prove more of a demon than a
god.--CHANNING.

Religion ought to be the basis of education, according to
often-repeated writings and declamations. The assertion is true.
Christianity furnishes the true basis for raising up character; but
the foundation must be laid in a very different manner from that
which is commonly practiced. * * * We can, indeed, scarcely conceive
of the purity, the self-denial, and the power that might be given to
human character by systematic development.--LALOR.

We have now reached a department of our subject of s