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is the nearest approach to tranquillity of 
mind that we have been able to discover; we 
must, therefore, thus leave it, and follow the 
example of our contemporaries, by adopt¬ 
ing it. 
ILLUSTRATION OP THE SENTIMENT. 
There is a gentle element, and man 
May breathe it with a calm unruffled soul. 
And drink its living waters, till his heart 
Is pure.—And this is happiness! 
Go abroad 
Upon the paths of nature, and, when all 
Its voices whisper, and its silent things 
Are breathing the deep beauty of the world. 
Kneel at its simple altar, and the God 
Who hath the living waters shall be there. 
Willis. 
