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tBeryl. 
A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. 
It occurs in green, or bluish-green, six-sided prisms, and consists of silica, 
alumina, and the rare earth glucina. It is identical with the emerald, 
except in color, the latter being colored by oxide of chrome, and the beryl 
by oxide of iron. 
The beryl, when transparent, is set as a gem, and called aqua-marine. 
Love Demands Love. 
(gratitude.) 
“The benefits he sow’d in me met not 
Unthankful ground, but yielded him his own 
With fair increase; and I still glory in it.” 
— Massinger. 
E OYE demands love; he who receives is under obligation, and the bene¬ 
fit granted calls for a return of gratitude. He who does not pay his 
debts is unjust; but he who does not pay the debt of gratitude is worse still 
—he is vile. It is a soul without delicacy and honor, which does not un¬ 
derstand that every good heart ought to be grateful, and that the sweetest 
of enjoyments is to declare the benefit which has been received, and to give 
back as much in return. It is a soul which is base and lowered beneath 
the level of savages, who show themselves to be grateful for a service; it 
sinks below the level of even the animals, of which many show themselves 
to be grateful to their masters and benefactors, even exposing themselves 
to death in order to defend them. It is, finally, an ungrateful soul, and 
that is saying everything, for ingratitude, the most odious of vices, is a 
hideous product of pride and malignity, founded upon the idea that he 
who gives seeming to be greater than he who receives, pride, being jealous 
