g24 Reveine, considered as 



stance connected, with our original employ- 

 ment, we shall, by this means, frequently 

 bring back the, mind from its excursion. It 

 has been asserted, in favour of the liturgy of 

 the Church of England, that, by being broken 

 into short prayers, and interspersed with fre- 

 quent responses to be spoken by the people, it 

 is accommodated to the frailty of human nature, 

 and has proved an excellent method of recalling 

 the mind, too apt to wander, even from its 

 most important occupations, and its most 

 sacred duties. 



A house of worship is certainly the most 

 suitable place for acts of devotion. The mind 

 is no sooner inattentive, than it sees around it 

 objects connected with religion, which upbraid 

 its >y.eakness,an^ check jts aberration. 



J^jXioy^^ 5:<p^mj5. i;i jth^, last plac^^o [enumerate 

 the remedies I WQuld propose for: the diseased 

 state of the piind, which has bee^i the subject 

 of the present dissertation— and these all rest 

 upon a single prin9iple. The ^ — vis insita'*M0f 

 the niind, inclining^ by a voluntary exrertiprtt^ 

 the sid<? of stu4y> i^Pi^stitutes th^ ^power of re-: 

 sisting the seducements of external stirfiuli, and 

 of bidding defiance to reverie : — and as reverie 

 has been shewo; ^9^ Proceed frpm merital re- 

 laxation and debility, so, whateyei; produces 



