ORGANIC REMAINS 
OF A 
FORMER WORLD, ^c. 
LETTER 1. 
RATIONAL APPLICATION OF WEALTH AND LEISURE ...SNAKE- 
STONES FAIRIES CHANGED TO SNAKES FAIRIES’ NIGHT- 
CAPS BONES OF GIANTS THUNDERBOLTS. 
1 HAVE long been of opinion, that aconsiderable portion of wealth, 
the fruit of anxious and laborious exertions, would yield, compara- 
tively, but little enjoyment ; unless, during the time devoted to its 
acquirement, care had been taken to fill up some of the leisure hours, 
which business could spare, with such amusements, as would form 
and cultivate a taste for truly rational pleasures. I am now con- 
vinced, that unless this be done, wealth and leisure, instead of pro- 
ducing to the man of business the completion of his happiness, will 
trequently prove to be the source of perpetual torment. The mind, 
deprived of its usual entertainment, and not trained for the adoption 
of any new mode of exercise, either lapses into the dreadful torpor of 
hypochondriasis, or seeks to obtain a temporary gratification from 
VOL. I. B 
