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abled seamen at Boston, without engaging at the same time to build 

 an ai'senal at Baltimore ? The hospital and arsenal may both be neces- 

 sary ; but cannot Baltimore allow a work of charity to go on unless she 

 can derive some benefit from the public funds? When we associate 

 for the purpose of rescuing Sir John Franklin at the North Pole, must 

 we be diverted from our object by the selfish cry of the Sandwich Is- 

 landers, that we are spending too miich money in the region of the 

 Esquimaux ? Great works of industry require association — in associa- 

 tion lies the possibility of their achievement ; but no association can be 

 compact or energetic, unless pervaded by the spirit of the work in 

 view. We must be magnanimous, truthful, and unselfish. The me- 

 chanism of human association, like the mechanism of nature, must have 

 its harmony and strength in principles, which in themselves true and 

 good, take the hue of a divine decree. 



Thus far we have spoken of that form of industry which has its chief 

 instrument and symbol in the human hand. 



We turn now to another form. Man is not the only creatm-e who 

 •works. The bee, the ant, the beaver, the coral insect, the fowls of 

 heaven, the mole under the surface of the earth, work also. When man 

 began to work, he worked, perhaps, more imperfectly than all the work- 

 ing creatures. But see how different it is now ! The bee made its hive, 

 the beaver its dam and hut, the ant its mound, the bird its nest, as 

 skilfully on the first day of creation as to-day. There was a degree of 

 perfection at once, but no after progress. But man from the smallest 

 and most imperfect beginnings, has m ade himself the most varied, per- 

 fect, and glorious of all workers. And why this difference ? Because 

 the creatures of mere instinct were limited by that instinct which gave 

 them at once the compass of their powers. 



But man, the creature of reason, of* reflection and theught, had in 

 these an unlimited power of self development, and consequently an 

 ever progressive power of outwardly expressing his thoughts and de- 

 signs. The ever unfolding power to know', led on the exhaustless 

 power to do. With him, therefore, industry took two forms — the in- 

 dustry of the hand, and the industry of the mind. Thought and work 

 make up the twofold and glorious scope of his being. No iirational 

 creature hath a hand like the human hand, because no such creature 

 hath the thought to guide it. The more perfect instrument corresponds 



