ebristianity as acdivine ape chiefly on the ground of its great in= 
- gaia tion to human nature, and the spirit 
of truth and- divine: philanthropy which gives life to all its precepts. 
All morality, he thought, was contained in two precepts—‘ Thou shalt 
Jove the Lord thy God and thy neighbor as ‘thyself.’ All» 3 
‘he thought were comprised i in this one—‘ Father, thy will be done?” 
» “The great aim of all his inquiries was to search out the will of 
God in the creation of man. Obedience to his laws he considered 
as the highest wisdom and the most expansive freedom,” included in 
the short sentence ‘Thy will be done.’ “* We look to him perhaps,” 
he would say, “‘amid great trials and on great occasions; but not in 
smaller things. We say ‘they are too little.’ It is this, in which 
we err. | ae: any thing that coneerns his children be too little od 
a’ Father ? 
ee Religie he thought, — be the result of the freest oes niost 
exalted use of our reason;” we presume, however, in accordance 
with revelation, for one of his friends aoe to him from — as 
nes % site —— with Holy Writ. 
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a deepest interest i in education, reformation of 1 morals and 
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pare favorably of our Atnorient institutions ; he considerec 
it as a great happiness that wealth is not here, long, hereditary, seed 
that men have, in this country, to make their own way. — 
-He thought, however, that we were in danger tnd self love seh 
ambition, and that if feelings of veneration and respect were not — 
tivated in the young we should, by and by, have fighting. 
~ To the compiler of this notice he said, with reference to the per- 
‘Mmanency of our institutions, when it was stated that, as they had 
lasted two hundred years, it was hoped they might be perman 
“'True—but, as yet, you have room enough and bread enough, but 
how will it be when your population becomes so dense that man 
touches man, and there is no more room nor place; how will it be 
: then? I give you, added he with a smile, five hundred years for your 
it; if your institutions stand five hundred — — po ol 
perhaps be piscibaselnt: * 
De. Spurzheim fella victim to his great ehoenst labors and t0 
exposure, by night rides, to Boston after his lectures at | 
bridge. During his lectures, his mental and physical exertions w 
