REASON.

Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young, As angels are, ripening through endless

years,

On one he leans: some call her Memory,
And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,
With deep mysterious accords: the other,
Floating above, holds down a lamp which

streams

A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,

Yet clings with loving check, and shines

anew,

Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp
Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked
But for Tradition; we walk evermore
To higher paths by brightening Reason's
lamp.

a.

GEORGE ELIOT-Spanish Gypsy.

Bk. II. You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I have endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love." b.

KEATS-Letters to Fanny Braune.

VIII. To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

C. LOCKE-Letter to Antony Collins, Esq.

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna,

appear

and could make the worse

course,

Looking before and after, gave us not

That capability and god-like reason
To fust in us unus'd.

r. Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 36.

While Reason drew the plan, the Heart inform'd

The moral page and Fancy lent it grace. THOMSON-Liberty. Pt. IV. L. 262.

8.

And what is reason? Be she thus defined:
Reason is upright stature in the soul.
YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night VII.
L. 1,526.

t.

Reason progressive, Instinct is complete; Swift Instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs. * In

Brutes soon their zenith reach. ages they no more

*

Could know, do, covet or enjoy.
Were man to live coeval with the sun,
The patriarch pupil would be learning still.
YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night VII.

u.

L. 81.

g.

CARLYLE-Essays. Burns.

On the whole we must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion; or with any other feeling than regret, and hope, and brotherly commiseration.

h.. CARLYLE-Essays. Voltaire.

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own. i. CHURCHILL-Epistle to Hogarth. L. 25. Religion, the pious worship of God. j. CICERO.

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet atheism, Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, Drops his blue-fring'd lids, and holds them close,

And hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, Cries out, "Where is it?"

The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, And atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save. p. COWPER-The Progress of Error. L. 613. Sacred religion! Mother of Form and Fear! 9. SAM'L DANIEL-Musophilus. St. 47.

I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert or Frenchman in the Academy, I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.

T. EMERSON-Lectures and Biographical Sketches. The Preacher. P. 215. Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

FROUDE-Short Studies on Great

Subjects. Calvinism. P. 20. But our captain counts the image of God, nevertheless, his image-cut in ebony as if done in ivory; and in the blackest Moors he sees the representation of the King of heaven. FULLER-Holy and Profane States.

น.

The Good Sea-Captain. Maxim 5. Indeed, a little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion.

v.

FULLER-Holy and Profane States.
The True Church Antiquary.
Maxim 1.

We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.