156 MAN. 



wrote it an author whose poetic works 

 adorn our literature, and whose name 

 will ever be held in that veneration and 

 esteem his writings are calculated to in- 

 spire, and to justify the verdict pronounced 

 on both, by contemporaries and posterity. 

 Nevertheless, worthy as his words are of 

 all acceptation, they are capable of two 

 constructions Man in relation to his 

 God ; man in relation to his fellow-man. 



Man, the sublime image of his Maker : 

 man, the diminutive and distant, yet 

 perfect, reflection of the great Creator's 

 attributes, praising and glorifying His 

 infinite wisdom, goodness, and power; 

 and man toiling in his predetermined 

 lot, fulfilling his prescribed career, urging, 

 bending, controlling all things in creation 

 to his use: man, enjoying and exulting 

 in the reward due to the judicious ex- 

 ercise of his corporeal or mental functions. 



No man can refute the justice of this 



