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more pleasing than that of the correction or the removal of any 

 of the acknowledged evils of life ;&quot; and well may he so say, 

 thinking of the infernal slave ship which he has destroyed, and 

 of the slavery which, chiefly by his noble exertions, will ulti 

 mately be abolished. 



Lord Bacon says, &quot; The inclination to goodness is imprint 

 ed deeply in the nature of man ; insomuch, that if it issue not 

 towards men, it will take unto other living creatures; as it is 

 seen in the Turks, a cruel people, who, nevertheless, are kind to 

 beasts, and give alms to dogs and birds. The parts and signs 

 of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to 

 strangers, it shews he is a citizen of the world, and that his 

 heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that 

 joins to them ; if he be compassionate towards the affliction of 

 others, it shews that his heart is like the noble tree that is 

 wounded itself when it gives the balm ; if he easily pardons and 

 remits offences, it shews that his mind is planted above injuries, 

 so that he cannot be shot; if he be thankful for small benefits, 

 it shews that he weighs mens minds, and not their trash ; but, 

 above all, if he have St. Paul s perfection, that he would wish 

 to be an anathema from Christ for the salvation of his breth 

 ren, it shews much of a divine nature, and a kind of conformity 

 with Christ himself. This, of all virtues and dignities of the 

 mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity ; and 

 without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no bet 

 ter than a kind of vermin.&quot; 



&quot; And the Lord saw all the work that he had made, and 

 behold it was very good.&quot; 



Swift says, the King s arms in Lilliput, were an angel lift 

 ing a beggar from the earth.&quot; 



Howard says, &quot; A person of more ability, with my know 

 ledge of facts, would have written better; but the object of my 

 ambition was not the fame of an author. Hearing the cry of 

 the miserable, I devoted my time to their relief. In order to pro 

 cure it, I made it my business to collect materials, the authenti 

 city of which could not be disputed. For the warmth of some 

 expressions where my subject obliges me to complain, and for 



