pulsive, and strongly tinctured with
disrespect towards their superiors, in perpetually endeavoring to level
all ranks and do away with all distinctions. It is monstrous to be told
you have a heart as sinful as the common wretches that crawl on the
earth. This is highly offensive and insulting; and I cannot but wonder
that your ladyship should relish any sentiments so much at variance with
high rank and good breeding. I shall be most happy to come and hear your
favorite preacher." Her Grace's sentiments towards the common wretches
that crawl on the earth were shared, we may be sure, by her Grace's
waiting-maid. Of humanity there was as little as there was of religion.
It was the age of the criminal law which hanged men for petty thefts, of
life-long imprisonment for debt, of the stocks and the pillory, of a
Temple Bar garnished with the heads of traitors, of the unreformed
prison system, of the press-gang, of unrestrained tyranny and savagery
at public schools. That the slave trade was iniquitous hardly any one
suspected; even men who deemed themselves religious took part in it
without scruple. But a change was at hand, and a still mightier change
was in prospect. At the time of Cowper's birth, John Wesley was
twenty-eight, and Whitefield was seventeen. With them the revival of
religion, was at hand. Johnson, the moral reformer, was twenty-two.
Howard was born, and in less than a generation Wilberforce was to come.

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_That is best blood that hath most iron in 't
To edge resolve with, pouring without stint
For what makes manhood dear._

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

XCIII. A LIBERAL EDUCATION.

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY.--1825-

_From_ LAY SERMONS, ADDRESSES, AND REVIEWS.

Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one
of us would, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losing a game
at chess. Don't you think that we should all consider it to be a primary
duty to learn at least the names and the moves of the pieces; to have a
notion of a gambit, and a keen eye for all the means of giving and
getting out of check? Do you not think that we should look with a
disapprobation amounting to scorn, upon the father who allowed his son,
or the state which allowed its members, to grow up without knowing a
pawn from a knight?

Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth, that the life, the
fortune, and the happiness of every one of