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tunes. How else should it happen that young men who have had precisely the same opportunities, should be continually presenting us with such diff ferent results, and rushing to such opposite desi nles? Difference of talent will not solve it, because that difference Is very often Tn favor of the disap pointed candidate. You shall see issuing from the walls of the same school-nay, sometimes from the bosom of the same family; two young men, of whom the one shall be admitted to be genius of high or der; the other, scarcely above the point of medoc- rlty yet you will see the genius sinking and per- lshlng In poverty, obscuity and wretchedness; while on the other hand, you will observe the mediocre ploddng hls slow but sure way up the hill of life; gaining steadtast footing at every step, and mount ing at length to eminence and distinction, an orna- ment to his family, blessing to his country. Now whose work is this ?-Manifestly their own. 1hy are the architects of their respective fortunes. Tie best seminary of learning that can open its portals to you, can do no more than afford you the opportu- nity of instruction, but it must depend at last, on yourselves, whether you will be instructed or not, or to what point you will push your instruction. And Of this be assured-l speak from observation cer- tain truth There is no excellence without great labor It is the fiat of fate from winch no power of genius can absolve youth. Genus unexerted, is like the poor moth that utters around candle till 1t scorches itsefto death. If genius be desirable at all, it is only ofthat great and magnanmous kind which, like the Condor of South America, pitches from the summit of Chimborazo, above the clouds, and sustains itself at pleasure in that empyrea gion with an energy rather invigorated than weak ened by the effort It is this capacity for high and long continued exertion ;-ths vigorous power of profound and searching Investigation this career ing and wide-sweeping comprehension of mind; and those long reaches of thought that,

 Pluck bright honor from the palc-faced moon

 Or dive into the bottom of the deep,

 Where fathom line never touched the ground,

 And drag up drowned honor by the locks.

 This is the prowess and these the hardy achieve ments which are to enroll your names among the great men of the earth

 But how are you to gain the nerve and the cour- age for enterprises of this pith and moment? Twill tell you;- As Milo gained that hoc sgno va.ces for this must be your work, not that of your teachers. Be you not wanting to yourselves and you will ac- complish all that your parents, friends and country have right to expect