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be the effect of variety of excitement transmitted 

 through a diversity of organization, it should tend 

 to produce in us mutual forbearance and toleration. 

 We should perceive how nearly impossible it is that 

 persons should think and feel exactly alike upon 

 any subject. We should not arrogantly pride our- 

 selves on our virtues and knowledge, nor condemn 

 the errors and weakness of others, since they may 

 depend upon causes which we can neither produce 

 nor readily counteract. No one, judging from his 

 own feelings and powers, can be aware of the kind 

 or degree of temptation, or terror, or the seeming 

 incapacity to resist them, which may induce others 

 to deviate." 



The general extension of Mankind over the surface of 

 the Globe. 



In considering these interesting peculiarities which 

 distinguish man from the brute creation, the next 

 in order worthy of notice seems to be his capability 

 of inhabiting every climate. The strength and 

 flexibility of his frame enable him to subsist in 

 every variety of temperature, while his ingenuity 

 can devise the means of support from the most un- 

 grateful soils. We find him in the high latitudes of 

 the polar regions, and beneath the burning line ; 

 on the lofty mountain ; in the deep valley ; the 

 dank morass ; and the sandy desert. Cold and 

 heat; drought and moisture, and every atmospheric 

 variety are alike to him. He may be said to be 



