

ORGANIC REMAINS 



OF A 



FORMER WORLD, 



LETTER I. 



RATIONAL APPLICATION OF WEALTH AND LEISURE SNAKE- 

 STONES FAIRIES CHANGED TO SNAKES FAIRIES* NIGHT- 

 CAPS BONES OF GIANTS THUNDERBOLTS. 



I HAVE long been of opinion, that a considerable portion of 

 wealth, the fruit of anxious and laborious exertions, would yield, 

 comparatively, but little enjoyment; unless, during the time de- 

 voted to its acquirement, care had been taken to fill up some of the 

 leisure hours, which business could spare, with such amusements, as 

 would form and cultivate a taste for truly rational pleasures. I am 

 now convinced, that unless this be done, wealth and leisure, instead 

 of producing to the man of business the completion of his happi- 

 ness, will frequently prove to be the source of perpetual torment. 

 The mind, deprived of its usual entertainment, and not trained 

 for the adoption of any new mode of exercise, either lapses into the 

 dreadful torpor of hypochondria; or seeks to obtain a temporary 

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