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once in the same clamorous and importunate cries. Vanity, pride, the satisfaction of success, the fear of failure, all quicken effort, and occupy the heart, when for a moment the original impulse relaxes. The circle of secondary desires is momentarily enlarged as the means of gratification are placed within their reach, and the wealth acquired is often less and le>s able to meet the claims laid upon it by feelings which, without law or limit in themselves, become ravenous in proportion to the food given them. Thus external and internal circumstances are increasingly shaped to the ruling feeling, grow up more and more under it, institute claims in harmony with it, confirm the judgments which sustain it, and weaken and remove to a distance adverse emotions. From this household of dependents, from this pressure of a prevalent opinion, from these confirmed and consolidated convictions of the soul itself, it is difficult to find an avenue of escape. If we substitute an appetite for a desire, though there is less warping of the judgment, there is in its place a peevish, persecuting habit, not easily to be worn out or resisted. From this confirmed movement which the feelings for the time-being assume, it becomes necessary that the forces which work for progress, should find concentration, and also that long periods should be allowed them in which to possess and fortify the ground they may be able to win. The overthrow of one class of feelings,- and their permanent replacement by another in a community, is a truly gigantic work, requiring often the slow eradication and correction of a protracted and varied experience.

This fact is especially observable in the development of the spiritual sensibilities. The social, moral law lies between persons, and is, therefore, every moment affected in its form by the parties to it. Gracious affections can not go forth toward ungracious men, any more than from them.