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Few individuals better understood the ma
ture of man than the author ofLacon.


His motto was "the noblest study of man
kind is man" We know of no work extant,
that furnishes so useful text book, as the
two little volumes by him of"many thingsin
few words"


The following aphOrism from his work is
not more just than applicable to the present
condition of our country.


"Liberty will not descend to a people,
people must raise themselves TO liberty; it
is a blessing that must be earned before it
can be enjoyed. That nation cannot be
enioyed. That nation cannot be free, where
reform is a common hack, that is dismissed
with kick the moment it has brought the
rider to his place. That nation cannot be
free, where parties are but different roads,
leading to one common destination, plunder.
That nation cannot be free, where the ru-
lers will not feel for the people, until they
are obliged to feel with the people, and then
it is too late. That nation cannot be free
that is bought by its own consent, and sold
against it; where the rogue that is in rags
| is kept in countenance by the rogue that j.