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is only by study, viz., by repeating, that it is 

 mastered. 



The extent to which this law of repetition effects 

 the intellectual and moral condition of the world, 

 has not been properly estimated; and though I 

 cannot enter fully into the subject in a work of this 

 kind, yet I cannot pass it unnoticed altogether, and, 

 when writing respecting the foundation of a College 

 for the purposes of education, I will be pardoned, I 

 hope, the digression. 



If we would be kind, sociable, polite, &c., &c., we 

 must be always so, whether in private or in public. 

 If we, in the retirement of our homes, indulge in 

 habits or in language that we would hide from the 

 world's eye and ear, we will betray ourselves often 

 when we do not expect it. Therefore it is, that 

 with all his efforts to appear genteel, an ill-bred or a 

 profane man, will, in spite of all his watchfulness, 

 betray his accustomed associations; for the habit, 

 which has grown with his growth, and strengthened 

 with his strength, cannot be controlled. As are 

 those associations, such will be the character of the 

 man for life; and for the one that rises above the 

 vicious associations of early years, ten thousand sink 

 into the depths of sin and infamy, so low, that there 

 is no escape for them but through the gates of 

 death. Thus it comes that our cities, densely 

 populated, are filled with wretches, fit ministers for 

 every crime. They have never known what virtue 

 is — they have grown up in the haunts where thieves 

 and gamblers and drunkards congregate ;— where 



