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rom the ffoyldence k. Journal.

 HE INFLUENCE OF POLITE LrrERA ryaE.-We take the suhjoined extracts from most able paper in late nun Der the North American Review. en. titled Defence of poetry''-he;sc . Review of Sir Philip Sidney's "De- fence of poetfy," recently re. published in the library of the old English prose writers, at Cambridge, (Mass.) We have somewhere seen the article attri- buted to the Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER. Every cultivated or feeling mind will respond to the truth of the sentiments So beautifully expressed below:

 "With us, the spirit of the age is clamorous for ntility-for visible, tangi ble utility-for bare, brawny, muscular utility. We would be reused to action by the voice of the populace, and the sounds of the crowded mart, and mot iuiled asleep in shady idleness with po- cts pastines.' We are swallowed up m schemes for gain, and engrossed with coatrivances for bodily enjoyments, as uthis particle of dust were immortal as if the soil needed no aliment, and the mind no raiment. We glory in tho ex- tent of our territory, in our rapidly in- creasing population, in our agricultural privileges, and our commercial advan- tages. We boast of the magnlicence and beauty of our natural scenery-of the various climates of our sky--the summers of our Northern regions-thc saubrious winters of the South, and of the various products of our soil, from the pines of our Northern highlands to the palm-tree and aloes of our Southern frontier. We boast of the increase and extent ofourPhysicaI strength, ,the sound of populons cities, breaking the silence and solitude of our Western territories --plantationsconquerej from the forest and gardens springing up in the wilder ness. Yet the true glory of nation consists, not in the extent ofits territory the pomp of its forests, the majesty ofits rivers, the height of it's mountains, and the beauty of it's sky; but p the exten, of its mental power-the majesty of its antellect-the height and depth and pn

 

 sity of its moral nature. It consists not Tn what nature has given to the body but in what nature and education have given to the mind ;-not in the world around us, but in the world within us:- aot in the circumstances of fortune, bu In the attributes of the soul:-not in ths corruptible, transitory, and perishable forms of matter, but in the incorrupti bic, the permanent, the imperishahlt mInd. True greatness is the greatnes ot the mind;-the true glory of na ton is moral and intellectual pre-emi hence.

 "But still the main current of educa ton runs in the wide and not we'll de tined channel of immediate and practi cal utility, The main point is, how t, make the greatest progress in worIdl prosperlty-how to advance most ran Idly in the career of gain. This, peI haps, isnecessarily the case to certai extent in country, where every man 