INDUSTRY AND APPLICATION.
Franklin has given you lesson rich with salutary instruction. Toll, unremit- ted and zealous toll; severe, searching and untiring thought, occupied both his mind and his body. You who have read his memoirs---and who has not ?---have only to contrast your own situations with that of the persevering mechanic. Imagine yourselves the rudely dressed and ungainly boy vending his way, homeless and pen nyless, through the streets of Philadelphia. Look again, and how is he changed! The materials of his greatness, arranged, and strengthened by years of painful exertion, have burst forth in all their spiendor. He has called about him the elements, and made, as it were, plaything of the light ming. Kings at the head of nations are doing homage to his genius. The proud est and the loveliest of earth, the terrible in war, and the mighty in council, are bending like worshippers at the shrine of his intellect.

 Romantic as this may seem, there was nothing of romance or poetry in the tenn perament of Franklin. He indeed sought out new paths, and looked deep into the phenomena of nature, and the character of man-but it was no flight of his imagina- ton that overlooked the false and limited boundary of science. It was the fixed glance of an inquisitive, but disciplined mind.

 Take Perkins for another example. He has acquired high reputation in his na- tive country, and in Europe. Yet had this man contented himself with listless inac- tivity---had he relaxed in the least from his habits of severe study and patient in- vestigation. he would have been at this moment the very reverse of all he is--.an unregarded and indolent sojourner on the great theatre of human action. Talk of genius as you may---speak of it as un- sought for, an immediate revelation of transcendant power---whatever it has been called, or whatever it may be, it is useful and glorious only in those who have strug- gled with passion and circumstances, and by slow and almost imperceptible degrees. erected the temple of their greatness.--- There may be at times phenomenon of mind which bursts forth at once in the full possession of power, like Pallas, from the brow of the infdel deity. 1t may flash out like a comet in the starry heaven of misunderstanding and flaming for mo- menr, but it will leave no traces of its path, no gem of light and knowledge in the hor- izon, over which it has hurried.

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