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" "■- ■■ t" - .ole, and I cannot help re^ardin? 

 tie end of human life as most happy, when termi- 

 nated under the impulse of some strong energetic 

 - oiLar in its nature to an instinct. I should 

 n :o die like Attila in a moment of ffr 



usual enjoyment : but the death of Epaminondas or 

 Hdsni in nns of victory, their whole attention 



absorbed in the love of glorv and of their country I 

 think t- nviab'- 



POIET. — I consider the death of the martyr or the 

 sain* : more enviable; for in this case, what m 



be considered a? a divine instinct of our nature, is 

 called i; _d pain is subdued, or destroved 



by - -re faith in the power and mercv of the 

 Divinity. In such cases m an rises above mortality. 



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and shows his true intellectual superiority. Bv in- 

 b pfl p fin al eriority I mean that of his spiritual 

 nature, for I do not consider the results of reason as 

 capable of being compared with those of faith. 

 Eeason is often a dead weight in life, destroying 

 feeling, and substhiiting, for principle, calculation 

 and caution: and, in the hour of death, it often 

 produces fear or despondency, and is rather a bitter 

 drau_ jt ambrosia in the last meal 



of life. 



Hal. — I agree with Poiet The higher and more 

 inter the feeling, under which death takes pla: 



