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inflicted is not greater than the system de- 

 served ; and no doubt both will look upon the 

 produce of a conacre with considerable suspicion 

 for the future: so that, viewing the potato 

 failure prospectively, we cannot help pausing 

 over the probability that it has been laid on 

 Ireland by the hand of one who sticketh closer 

 to her than a brother. 



The body of a labouring man may justly be 

 said to be in an unnatural state, certain parts 

 undergoing greater waste than others, accord- 

 ing to the character of the work at which he is 

 employed ; and hence the natural disposition of 

 man to evade labour altogether. This un- 

 natural and artificial state of the body, instead 

 of being injurious to its health and existence, is 

 wisely ordained to be otherwise ; and hence 

 again the awful consequences to those tribes 

 and nations who have followed the natural dis- 

 position. 



The world presents us with a lamentable 

 evidence of the general degeneracy in the 

 moral and physical character of the human race. 

 To such an extent have the intellectual facul- 

 ties as well as the material system of man been 

 changed and deteriorated in many instances, 



