26 YOUTHFUL CENSORSHIP. 
ized to the tongue, and, through the tongue, 
familiarized also to the mind !” 
Our party wound up their discourse with 
this decision, that the term Garden of the 
Zoological Society is too lengthened, and 
too formal, to be always conveniently em- 
ployed; and that, if we could but bring our- 
selves to think of a garden as no more than a 
space of ground which is girden, garden, or 
enclosed, there would not remain even a lite- 
ral objection to the term, ‘* Zoological Gar- 
den.” Young persons are great critics, and 
exceedingly acute in the discovery of weak 
points, both in argument and in medes of ex- 
pression. Equally in language as in life, they 
are zealous for the abstract right, and com- 
monly less disposed, than their elders, to ad- 
mit or to tolerate qualifications, exceptions, 
or allowances; and, in a more proper place, 
something might be added, as to the causes, 
and as to the good and the evil, of these dif- 
ferences of temper, in the younger and the 
older, and on the happy medium which, 
alone, and upon all occasions, is to be com- 
mended, both in the older and the younger ! 
The family being habitual visitors of the 
