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THE MIND.--The most compendious the most noble, and the most effectual rem edy which can be opposed to the uncertain and irregular motions of the human mind agitated by various passions, allured by various temptations, inclinmg sometimes toward state of moral perfection, and of tener, even the best, toward state of moral is this. We must choose be- times such virtuous objects as are propor- toned to the means we have of pursuing, and as belong particularly to the stations we are in and to the duties of those sta lions. We must determine and fix our mind upon them in such manner, that the pursuit of them may become the business, and the attainment of them in the end of our lives. Thus we shall initiate the great operations of nature, and not the feeble, slow, and imperfect operations of art We must not proceed in forming the moral character as a statuary proceeds in forming statue, who works sometimes on ore part, and sometimes on another; but we must proceed, as nature does in forming a flower, an animal, or ary other of her pro- ductions;-"rudimenta partium ominum simul parit ct producit' "She throws out altogether, and at once. the whole system of every thing, and the rudmefits of all the parts. "-The vegetable or the animal grows in bulk and increases in strength but it is the same from the first.--Bo- 