HUMAN NATURE.

HUMAN NATURE-Divineness of.

With oursciences and our cyclopædias, we are apt to forget the divineness in those laboratories of ours. We ought not to forget it! That once well forgotten, I know not what else were worth remembering! Most sciences, I think, were then a very dead thing-withered, contentious, empty-a thistle in late autumn. The best science, without this, is but as the dead timber; it is not the growing tree and forest-which gives ever-new timber among other things! Man cannot know either, unless he can worship in some way. His knowledge is a pedantry and dead thistle, otherwise.

HUMAN NATURE-Rational.

Carlyle.

HUMILITY-a Fragrant Flower.

'Tis a fair and fragrant flower; in its appearance modest, in its situation low and hidden; it doth not flaunt its beauties to every vulgar. eye, or throw its odours upon every passing gale; 'tis unknown to the earthly botanist, it discovers itself only to the spiritual searcher; neither does he find it among those gay and gaudy tribes of flowers with which the generality are so easily captivated, but in some obscure and unfrequented spot, where the prints of human footsteps are rarely seen. But whenever he finds it, he is sure to behold its bosom opened to the Sun of Righteousness, receiving new sweets in perpetual succession from his exhaustless source. Caspipini.

HUMILITY-a Frail Flower.
The loveliest, sweetest flower
That bloomed in Paradise, and the first that died,
Has rarely blossom'd since on mortal soil.
It is so frail, so delicate a thing,
'Tis gone if it but look upon itself;
And she who ventures to esteem it hers,
Proves by that single thought she has it not.

HUMILITY-Hypocrisy of.

Mrs. Fry.

HUMILITY.

HUMILITY-leads to Improvement.

Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement. Study your own characters; endeavour to learn and to supply your own deficiencies; never assume to yourselves qualities which you do not possess ; combine all this with energy and activity, and you cannot predicate of yourselves, nor can others predicate of you, at what point you may arrive at last. Sir Benjamin Brodie.

HUMILITY-our first Lesson.

Humility is the first lesson we learn from reflection, and self-distrust, the first proof we give of having obtained a knowledge of ourselves. Zimmerman.

HUMILITY-Necessity for.

All the world, all that we are, and all that we have, our bodies and our souls, our actions and our sufferings, our conditions at home, our accidents abroad, our many sins, and our seldom virtues, are as so many arguments to make our souls dwell low in the deep valley of humility. Jeremy Taylor.

HUMILITY-Pre-eminence of.

Among all other virtues, humility, though it be lowest, yet is pre-eminent. It is the safest, because it is always at anchor; and that man may be truly said to live with most content in his calling, who strives to live within the compass of it.

HUMILITY-always Safe.

Rihel.

To be humble to superiors, is duty; to equals, is courtesy; to inferiors, is nobleness; and to all, safety; it being a virtue, that, for all her lowliness, commandeth those souls it stoops to. Thomas Mort

HUNGER.

HUNGER-an Impulse to Labour.

Hunger is one of the beneficent and terrible instincts. It is, indeed, the very fire of life, underlying all impulses to labour, and moving man to noble activities by its imperious demands. Look where we may, we see it as the motive power which sets the vast array of human machinery in action. It is hunger which brings these stalwart navvies together in orderly gangs to cut paths through mountains, to throw bridges across rivers, to intersect the land with the great iron-ways which bring city into daily communication with city. Hunger is the overseer of those men erecting palaces, prison-houses, barracks. and villas. Hunger sits at the loom, which, with stealthy power, is weaving the wondrous fabrics of cotton and silk. Hunger labours at the furnace and the plough, coercing the native indolence of man into strenuous and incessant activity. Let food be abundant and easy of access, and civilization becomes impossible; for our higher efforts are dependent on our lower impulses in an indissoluble manner. Nothing but the necessities of food will force man to labour, which he hates, and will always avoid when possible. And although this seems obvious only when applied to the labouring classes, it is equally, though less obviously true, when applied to all other classes, for the money we all labour to gain is nothing but food, and the surplus of food, which will buy other men's labour. If in this sense hunger is seen to be a beneficent instinct, in another sense it is terrible; for when its progress is unchecked it becomes a devouring flame, destroying all that is noble in man, subjugating his humanity, and making the brute dominant in him, till finally life itself is extinguished. Besides the picture of the activities it inspires, we might also place a picture of the ferocities it evokes. Many an appaling story might be cited, from that of Ugolino in the famine-tower, to those of wretched shipwrecked men and women who have been impelled by the madness of starvation to murder their companions that they might feed upon their flesh. Smiles.

A prudent father,
By nature charged to guide and rule her choice,
Resigns his daughter to a husband's power,
Who, with superior dignity, with reason,
And manly tenderness, will ever love her;
Not first a kneeling slave, and then a tyrant.
Thomson.

HUSBAND-Excellencies of a.
Faithful-as dog, the lonely shepherd's pride;
True-as the helm, the bark's protecting guide:
Firm-as the shaft that props the towering
dome;

Sweet as to shipwreck'd seaman land and home;

Lovely-as child, a parent's sole delight; Radiant as morn, that breaks a stormy night; Grateful-as streams, that, in some deep recess With rills unhoped the panting traveller bless, Is he that links with mine his chain of life, Names himself lord, and deigns to call me wife. Euripides.

See, what a grace was seated on his brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;

Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile;
Andery content, to that which grieves my heart;
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face to all occasions.

drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;
I'd slay more gazers than the basilisk;
III play the orator as well as Nestor,
Deceive more slyly than Ulysses could,
And, like a Sinon, take another Troy:
I can add colours to the chameleon;
Change shapes, with Proteus, for advantages,
And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
Tat, were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

HYPOCRISY-of the Countenance.

Ibid.

In vain you soothe me with your soft endearments,

And set the fairest countenance to view;
Your gloomy eyes betray a deadness,
And inward languishment: that oracle
Fats like a subtle worm its venom'd way,
Preys on your heart, and rots the noble core,
Howe'er the beauteous outside shows so lovely.

Lee.

We'll mock the time with fairest show;
Fair face must hide what the false heart does
know.
Shakspeare.

Obey me, features, for one supple moment:
You shall not long be tortured. Here, in courts,
We must not wear the soldier's honest face.
Thompson.

HYPOCRISY-Danger of.

Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,
For villany is not without such rheum;
And he, long-traded in it, makes it seem
Like rivers of remorse and innocence.

Shukspeare.

Neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone,

Oft, beneath

By His permissive will, through heaven and earth;

The saintly veil, the votary of sin
May lurk unseen, and to that eye alone
Which penetrates the inmost heart, revealed.

And oft, though wisdom wakes, suspicion sleeps
At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity
Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill,
Where no ill seems.

Bally.

Our better mind