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joined the great ocean of thought. The sect or party changes 

 its form and loses its individuality, but its influence has gone 

 forth and is felt in the current of opinion. All the separate 

 and distinct influences of men and sects become universalised 

 in the great sea of eternity. MA. 



Injured but not Destroyed. 



Though your attempt to destroy a man's position may fail 

 to accomplish that object, it maybe productive of serious injury 

 to him. Yet, fortunately for him, that very injury may after- 

 wards bring forth good results. His friends may rally round 

 him ; his resources may be added to through the medium of the 

 sympathetic ; or he may be so acted on as to put forth power 

 from within which develops new graces and fresh vigour. 

 You injure a tree, and you will discover reparation is at work 

 even there. The wheel of your cart, for instance, grazes the 

 trunk, or the root of the tree is wounded by your passing 

 ploughshare ; the result is an adventitious bud comes. Where- 

 ever you see those adventitious buds which come without any 

 order, you may recollect that their formation is frequently thus 

 produced, by the irritation caused by injury. You cut down 

 the heads of a group of forest trees \ you have not destroyed 

 them. Like the men you have injured, they live to tell the 

 tale. The pollarded dwarf remains to declare what the forest 

 tree would have become but for you. Even the date of your 

 attack can be ascertained; for the stunted group will cover 

 themselves with branches all of the same age and strength, 

 which will exhibit to the sky the evidence of the story : 

 Injured these all are ; yes, but not destroyed. v. 



The Persecution of the Injured. 



It is a strange fact that both animals and men enter heartily 

 into the persecution of the injured. The motive which induces 

 animals to attack and even destroy the wounded and disabled of 

 their own species, arises from an impulse which certainly is not 

 easily defined ; but it is clear the deed is perpetrated, and that 

 under feelings of the most intense hatred. "When a wolf or 



