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in tho emoluments or position thus offered ? My respected 

 and reverend critic will not deny mo that such an instance 

 has been heard of, I think ; while I will cheerfully grant 

 him the right that I think exists in such a case. AU 

 market commodities, I say, are regulated by the bona, fide 

 demand for them ; and he, or they, who may feel disposed 

 to pay the highest price for goods, chattels, services, talents, 

 birds or beasts, has the most unquestionable right to them. 



In the second place, if Mr. Huntington's censure means 

 anything, it means that facts which show the actions of 

 men in a light not altogether agreeable ought never to 

 be pvhlished ; particularly if the spirit of exaggeration 

 should have characterized the events narrated. Thus 

 the history of humanity, as he would choose to have it 

 written, would form a very remarkable series of books, 

 truly ! Not one thing out of the common order would be 

 permitted to have place in their pages. This arrangement 

 might make very moral reading, but the moralist who 

 should go out to fight the battle of life with only the knowl- 

 edge thus obtainable, would surely find that he was very 

 like the youth who "went to sea" because he had been 

 amused by sailing on a fish-pond. 



Real life is a rough business ; its only play is horse-play ; 

 and I am inclined to the opinion, that though it is an 

 indisputable pity that the good are not competent to be 

 men's sole guides through it, even the example of the 

 wicked is of some use in it, by way of warning, if in no 

 other way. 



Judging from the strictures contained in his Fast Day 

 discourse, the reverend Mr. Huntington would have no 

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