iv. to KEW. 



stinct, becomes attached to his parents from 

 being sensible that they are necessary to his 

 happiness; but at a more advanced period, 

 when reason begins to unfold itself, he feels 



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still more the value of their tenderness, and 

 the sacrifices they have made for him. He 

 blesses the hands which rocked the cradle of 

 his infancy, and vows to return to his parents 

 the cares they lavished on his .early years. 



These, my children, are a few of the 

 means employed by Providence, in order to 

 promote domestic union and harmony : but 

 it is also necessary to the well-being and 

 improvement of man, and the invention and 

 progress of the useful arts, that families 



should be united into larger communities. 



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Hence they are rendered dependent on one 

 another by mutual wants and dangers, 



Man soon perceives that he requires the 

 aid of his fellow-men, in order to augment 

 the powers bestowed on him by an all-wise 

 Creator. It is by this union that he obtains 

 a victory over ferocious animals, that he u 



Ii enable^ 



