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early exercised until they are easily called up from 

 the great deep in which years had entombed them, 

 how readily do appeals for this purpose find their 

 way to the heart and produce abundant harvest! 

 And yet we never think but that the harvest springs 

 immediately from the edge of the sickle that is 

 gathering it; we never think that the seed must 

 have been long sown; that the germ must have 

 grown; that the husbandman merely gathers what 

 somie other hand planted. 



From the very savage that prowls through our 

 forests, or hunts the deer and the buffalo upon our 

 far-away prairies, we might learn wisdom. If he 

 wishes the young warrior he is rearing to distinguish 

 the sound of the footstep of his foe, he does not 

 merely point out the way he should listen, lay down 

 the rules, &c., but he directs him to put his ear to 

 the ground, and by the effect produced upon a 

 material organ, by the exercise of that organ until 

 it is capable of distinguishing those sounds, does he 

 train him. If he wishes him to excel in the various 

 accomplishments of savage life — in lying in wait — in 

 ambush — in daring attack — in courage — in contempt 

 of pain — of fatigue — in revenge — he practises him 

 in the same manner by the exercise of the material 

 instrument, until he is worthy to become a chief of 

 his tribe; and yet if we reflect but one moment, we 

 will be satisfied that it is the mind, which thus 

 manifests itself through its exercised material organ, 

 and accomplishes his purpose. 



