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and in his eagerness to do so he simply wounds himself, and 

 his senses being obscured by his passion, he then hugs the 

 grievance he has himself made, and thereby becomes the object 

 of derision. P. 



The Penalties of Quarrelsomeness. 



If you will always be ready to go off like a loaded gun even 

 by an accident, depend on it you will get into difficulty. Your 

 testy, quarrelsome people, not only injure themselves and others, 

 but when in danger their deliverance is often rendered totally 

 impossible because of their inveterate habit of contention, and 

 they are plunged from injury into absolute ruin. As soon as 

 they meet they begin a quarrel. They are placed in a position 

 of common danger, but even in discussing it they quarrel. 

 They actually are overtaken by the danger and still they quarrel, 

 being more eager about injuring each other than about any 

 other consideration. The proceedings in Nature somewhat 

 resembling theirs are those which we notice amongst the ruffs. 

 In the beginning of spring when the ruffs arrive among our 

 marshes, they are observed to engage with desperate fury 

 amongst each other; it is then that the fowlers, seeing them 

 intent on mutual destruction, spread their nets over them and 

 take them in great numbers. Yet even in captivity their 

 animosity still continues ; the people that fat them up for sale 

 are obliged to shut them up in close dark rooms, for if they 

 let ever so little light in among them, the turbulent prisoners 

 instantly fall to fighting with each other, and never cease till 

 each has killed his antagonist, especially, says Willoughby, if 

 anybody stands by. A. 



Nature's Method of Answering Man's Questions. 



A force cannot be seen or grasped ; we notice it only in the 

 effects which it produces. If we would know whether a piece 

 of steel possesses magnetic power, we apply a needle, and try 

 whether this is attracted by it or not ; we then conclude from 

 its behaviour as to the absence or presence of magnetism. Pre- 

 cisely the same course, that of experiment, must be taken in 



