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pentance to the mind. There is a stronger analogy 

 between these two things than any one who has not re 

 flected upon the subject can be aware of. It is safe to 

 assert that any particular style of building and grounds, 

 which serves in the highest degree to promote the hap 

 piness of the permanent occupants, will confer the most 

 enduring pleasure upon the beholder. 



We frequently admire without one spark of affection, 

 and love with deep affection what we do not admire. 

 But more pleasure springs from love than from admira 

 tion ; and when people madly relinquish those humble 

 scenes and objects which they love, to obtain those 

 which shall glitter in the public eye, tickle their own 

 vanity and excite the envy of their neighbors, they 

 commit a greater error than the most bitter declaimer 

 against pride has generally imagined. I am far from 

 believing the paradox, maintained by Rousseau, that 

 man is more happy in a state of nature than in a civil 

 ized state. This author, in his efforts to grasp at an 

 important truth, reached beyond it. That great truth I 

 believe to be this : that the more we extend and cul 

 tivate the moral and intellectual advantages and refine 

 ments of civilization, while we tie ourselves down to 

 the simple habits of rustic life, the greater will be the 

 sum of our happiness. 



