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the labour shall be remitted : then all will be well, for 

 all will lead to a prosperous issue. With a thorough 

 persuasion that steady, well-arranged employment is 

 the grand instrument of mental prowess and superiority, 

 guard against listlessness, frivolity, and day-dreams; 

 resort to the higher, the heavenly, springs of self-govern- 

 ment, and ultimate success is yours. And, although I 

 have, on this occasion, scarcely adverted to moral con- 

 siderations, yet, you will, on the termination of our 

 intercourse, permit me to remind you, that there is so 

 fixed and indissoluble a connexion between moral con- 

 duct and intellectual progress, that whoever falls into 

 irregular courses, or indulges evil propensities, will 

 inevitably show it by his failures in study, and the 

 crudeness and poverty of his acquisitions. 



Finally. If knowledge, in its advance, dispels the 

 darkness and perplexity of error, and you wish to ex- 

 patiate with freedom and safety in the light of truth, 

 pursue it. 



If knowledge, united with uprightness, bring esteem 

 and confidence, and you love to be esteemed and con- 

 fided in, pursue it. 



If " knowledge is power," and you love power and 

 influence, pursue it. 



If knowledge carry in its train extended usefulness, 

 and you love to be extensively useful in your profession 

 and in the world, pursue it. 



If knowledge, as it becomes augmented, enlarges its 

 own power of expansion ; if the mere consciousness of 

 progression makes your progress more continuous, and 

 you feel the delights of a daily advance in knowledge, 

 pursue it. 



If it be " heaven upon earth to have a man's mind 



