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leaving him — if he knew his strength, he would 

 not remain long fastened to that hitching post so 

 much against his will, by a strap that would no 

 more resist his powerful weight and strength tiian 

 a cotton thread would bind a strong man." Yet 

 these facts, made common by every-day occurrence, 

 are not thought of as anything wonderful. Like 

 the ignorant man who looks at the difierent phases 

 of the moon, you look at these things as he looks 

 at her different changes without troubling your 

 mind with the question, " Why are these things 

 so?" What would be the condition of the world 

 if all our minds lay dormant? If men did not 

 think, reason, and act, our undisturbed, slumbering 

 intellects would not excel the imbecility of the 

 brute ; we should live in chaos, hardly aware of 

 our existence. And yet, with all our activity of 

 mind, we daily pass by unobserved that which 

 would be wonderful if philosophized and reasoned 

 upon ; and with the same inconsistenc}- wonder at 

 that which a little consideration, reason, and philo- 

 sophy would make but a simple affair. 



Third — He will allow any object, however fright- 

 ful in appearance, to come around, over, or on him, 

 that does not inflict pain. 



We know from a natural course of reasoning, 

 that there has never been an effect without a cause, 

 and we infer from this, that there can be no action 



