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hold it positive!) a moral duty, as well as an act of 

 humanity, not to be neglected, that we get good 

 advice and information as a guide to any decision or 

 act in which humanity is concerned. 



We will now turn our attention to where vanity 

 sometimes occasions suffering, where there is not 

 ignorance to plead in palliation of such effects. 



There are various kinds of vanity, some reprehen- 

 s ible, others puerile, and others, again, highly com 

 mendable ; in the latter cases we usually give it 

 some other appellation — it is, however, virtually, still 

 vanity. Vanity may make, and has made, many a 

 man a hero — it is then termed a love of glory, or a 

 thirst for fame ; thirsting for fame, twist and turn it 

 as you will, is but a wish for vanity to be gratified ; 

 vanity has more claim on our notice, and sometimes 

 commendation, than is usually awarded to it. I am 

 aware that pride and vanity are quite distinct in 

 themselves, though often united in one person ; but 

 to be vain of doing a thing, or to be proud of iu 

 come in very close affinity, though they may, and do 

 convey a different idea of the person feeling them, 



