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of locality his idea of home. It is a narrowing of our 

 capabilities to anchor our hopes in some village or 

 county, and to persuade ourselves that thence they 

 cannot be started without shipwreck. If ever any of 

 the sons of men were senseless of ambition and the 

 auri sacra fames those circulating forces that draw 

 men from the native hearth, and prevent the stagna- 

 tion of societies they would need a triple defence 

 against Necessity to fortify such a position. "\Vhen 

 this " Daughter of Jove " descends in her might, and 

 hurls them from their strongholds when go from 

 home they must, even then will men sometimes go 

 resistingly, which is the same thing as to go painfully. 

 A man who should cling to some particular post or 

 pillar till torn thence by mechanical force, would pro- 

 bably be wounded in the struggle. And so is it that 

 the mental lacerations which some emigrants exhibit 

 as the work of cruel necessity, are but the effect of 

 their own obstinate clinging to some spot or out- 

 ward object from which the fiat of necessity has 

 separated them. Such men are cruel to themselves, 

 and must often move the pity of their fellow-way- 

 farers. Such men are to be seen nursing their sor- 

 rows, blinding their eyes, and denying the sympathies 

 of their immortal and infinite spirits. Tlie World is 

 man's habitation ; and a good Providence has so 

 adorned its every part, that nowhere can we be 

 called to dwell where a wise man may not be happy 

 and at home. The sacred asylum of home is of no 



