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the Bramins, in attentions to those who stood near her, and 

 . conversation with her relations. When the body was taken 

 up she followed close up to it, attended by the chief Bramin ; 

 and when it was deposited in the pile, she bowed to all around 

 her, and entered without speaking. The moment she entered, 

 the door was closed; the fire was put to the combustibles, 

 which instantly flamed, and immense quantities of dried wood 

 and other materials were thrown upon it. This last part of 

 the ceremony was accompanied with the shouts of the raulti- 

 tude ; who now became numerous, and the whole seemed a 

 mass of confused rejoicing. 



Now is there a Christian? Is there a philosopher? Is there 

 a man of education or any man in England, who would not 

 wish to see this custom abolished? And why? Because we 

 know it is an evil, and our desire to diminish evil is one of our 

 sources of enjoyment: varying, as all our enjoyments vary 

 with our sensibility. 



Of the sympathy between knowledge and goodness, Ba 

 con, thus speaks in the opening of Book V. of the Treatise, 

 De Augmentis. The knowledge respecting the understand 

 ing of Man and that other respecting his Will, are, as it were 

 Twins by birth : For the purity of illumination, and the liberty 

 of will began together fell together: Nor is there in the univer- 

 sal nature of things so intimate a sympathy, as that of truth and 

 1 goodness. Quo magis rubori fuerit viris doctis, si scientia sint 

 tanquam angeli alati, cupiditatibus vero tanquam serpentes, 

 qui humi reptant : circumgerentes animas, instar speculi sane, 

 sed menstruati. And in the first book he says, in general and 

 in sum certain it is that * veritas&quot; and &quot; bonitas&quot; differ but as 

 * the seal and the print: for truth prints goodness: and they 

 be the clouds of error which descend in the storms of passions 

 and perturbations. 



NOTE E. 



It is a pleasure to diminish Evil. 



Clarkson thus begins his immortal work on the Slave Trade : 

 &quot; I scarcely know any subject, the contemplation of which is 



