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one ever changes his character from the time he is two hours 

 old ; that under all circumstances the internal original bias 

 remains the same always, true to itself to the very last. His 

 development is analogous to that of humbler creatures. The 

 material which is capable of expansion is settled once for all. 

 That which is not settled is the mode of its development the 

 education of it. In this men are like insects. All insects, 

 whatever transmutations they seem to undergo, are yet brought 

 forth with those very limbs, parts, and wings which they 

 afterwards seem to acquire. In the most helpless caterpillar 

 there is still to be seen the rudiments of that beautiful plum- 

 age which it afterwards expands when a butterfly ; and though 

 many new parts seem unfolded to the view, the animal acquires 

 none but such as it from the beginning possessed. The grass- 

 hopper, though seemingly without wings, is in reality from 

 the first possessed of those instruments, and only waits for 

 sufficient force to break the bonds that hold them folded up, 

 and to give them their full expansion. AN. 



The Dissimilar Effects of an Easy and Anxious -v 

 Existence. 



Those animals whose food is always within their reach are 

 in general indolent and peaceful, and possess but little mental 

 activity ; and such are the herbivores, with few exceptions. 

 But, on the other hand, the carnivores are extremely prompt 

 and lively ; their bones are more compact, their muscles 

 stronger, their faculties keener, an4 their sense of percep- 

 tion greater; and hence their sensations are more intense 

 and more easily excited, their actions quick and resolute, 

 hesitating at neither plunder nor destruction. Those men 

 whose worldly fortune has been made for them, and who are 

 not challenged to think about the everyday wants of life, are 

 often phlegmatic, stupid, dense. Those other men, who have 

 to produce by their own mental and physical energy every- 

 thing needful for their own existence, what a different sort are 

 they ! Of them come our legislators, poets, artists, inventors, 

 the mental and moral aristocracy of the world. PA. 



