find also, that we can exert a voluntary power over these processes, by which we control, direct, and regulate them at our will,-and that when we do not exert this power, the mind is left to the influence of external im

pressions, or casual trains of association, often
unprofitable, and often frivolous. We thus
discover that the mind is the subject of
culture and discipline, which, when duly
exercised, must produce the most important
results on our condition as rational and moral
beings; and that the exercise of them involves
a responsibility of the most solemn kind,
which no man can possibly put away from
him.
Dr. Abercrombie.

MIND-Condition of.
When coldness wraps this suffering clay,
Ah! whither strays the immortal mind?
It cannot die, it cannot stay,

But leaves its darken'd dust behind. Byron.

The age of a cultivated mind is even more complacent, and even more luxurious, than the youth. It is the reward of the due use of the endowments bestowed by nature; while they who in youth have made no provision for age, are left like an unsheltered tree, stripped of its leaves and its branches, shaking and withering before the cold blasts of winter. In truth, nothing is so happy to itself, and so attractive to others, as a genuine and refined imagination, that knows its own powers, and throws forth its treasures with frankness and fearlessness. Our thoughts, our reminiscences, our intellectual acquirements, die with us to this world; but to this world only. If they are what they ought to be, they are treasures which we lay up for heaven. That which is of the earth, earthly, perishes with rank, honours, authority, and other earthly and perishable things; but nothing that is worth retaining can be lost. Affections, well-placed and dutifully cherished; friendships, happily formed and faithfully maintained; knowledge, acquired with worthy intent; and intellectual powers that have been diligently improved, are the talents which our Lord and Master has committed to our keeping; these will accompany us into another state of existence, as surely as the soul in that state retains its identity and its consciousness. Southey.

MIND-Culture of the.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind,

MIND.

without cultivation, can never produce good fruit. Seneca.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food is to the body. Cicero.

MIND-Discipline of the.

Learn to feel the supreme interest of the discipline of the mind;-study the remarkable power which you can exercise over its habits of attention and its trains of thought; and

cultivate a sense of the deep importance of exercising this power according to the principles of wisdom and of virtue. Judging upon these principles, we are taught to feel that life has a value beyond the mere acquirement of knowledge, and the mere prosecution of our own happiness. This value is found in those nobler pursuits which qualify us for promoting the good of others, and in those acquirements by which we learn to become masters of ourselves. It is to cultivate the intellectual part for the attainment of truth, and to train the moral being for the solemn purposes of life, when life is viewed in its relation to a life which is to come.

There is as much greatness of mind in the owing of a good turn, as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season, than be wanting in it. He that precipitates a return, does as good as say, I am weary of being in this man's debt; not but that the hastening of a requital, as a good office, is a commendable disposition, but it is another thing to do it as a discharge; for it looks like casting off a heavy and troublesome Seneca.

burden.

A great, a good, and a right mind, is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh; and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince. It came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity,

The human mind considered as that of an individual, or collectively as that of an age, or a nation, is slow and gradual in its development. At times it meets with obstructions that seem to prevent its expansion, and to retard its growth. But still it is, on the whole, found to be progressive in its march, and continual in its increase. The augmentation of its ideas to-day, becomes the preparation for a greater increase to-morrow. Every generation makes an intellectual advance beyond the preceding. Whatever doubts might exist on this subject, before the invention of printing, there can be no doubt that that art has not only accelerated, but perpetuated the intellectual progression of

man.

It is the opening of a better day on the prospects of the human race;-the dawn of a new era of mental improvement and intellectual activity. Fellowes.

The star which rises o'er her steep, nor climb? Byron.

MIND-LOwliness of.

Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good,
But graciously to know I am no better.-
Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright,
Shakspeare.

When it doth tax itself.
MIND-Neutrality of.

There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted, that these men can only negatively offend; but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please. Greville.

MIND-National Phases of.

The difference between the state of mind in the reign of Elizabeth and in that of Charles I. is astonishing. In the former period there was an amazing development of power, but all connected with prudential purposes-an attempt to reconcile the moral feeling with the full exercise of the powers of the mind, and the accomplishment of certain practical ends. Thus lived Bacon, Burghley, Sir W. Raleigh, Sir Philip Sidney, and a galaxy of great men, statesmen, lawyers, politicians, philosophers, and poets; and it is lamentable that they should have degraded their mighty powers to such base designs and purposes, dissolving the rich pearls of their great facul ties in a worthless acid, to be drunken by a

MEMORY.

had its overcast, its cold, its stormy hours. Second, X-, huge, dingy; the canvas cracked and smoked; a yellow sky, sooty clouds; no sun, no azure; the verdure of the suburbs blighted and sullied-a very dreary scene. Third, Belgium; and I will pause before this landscape. Green, reedy swamps; fields fertile but flat, cultivated in patches, that made them look like magnified kitchen-gardens; belts of cut trees, formal as pollard willows, skirting the horizon; narrow canals, gliding slow by the road-side; painted Flemish farmhouses; some very dirty hovels; a grey, dead sky; wet roads, wet fields, wet housetops; not a beautiful, scarcely a picturesque object met my eye along the whole route; yet, to me, all was beautiful, all was more than picturesque. Charlotte Brontë.

MEMORY-Pleasures of.

Come to me often, sportive Memory,

Thy hands are full of flowers, thy voice is sweet,

Thine innocent, uncareful look doth meet
The solitary cravings of mine eye;

I cannot let thee flit unheeded by,
For I have gentle words wherewith to greet
Thy welcome visits: pleasant hours are fleet,
So let us sit and talk the sand-glass dry,
Dear visitant, who comest, dark and light,
Morning and evening, and with merry voice
Tellest of new occasion to rejoice;
And playest round me in the fairy night,
Like a quaint spirit, on the moonlight beams
Threading the lazy labyrinth of dreams.
Henry Arnold.

MEMORY-a Source of Pleasure.

Memory, a source of pleasure and instruction, rather than that dreadful engine of colloquial oppression, into which it is sometimes erected. Sidney Smith.

MEMORY-Powers of.

The powers of memory are twofold. They

consist in the actual reminiscence or recollection of past events, and in the power of retaining what we have learned in such a manner that can be called into remembrance as occasions present themselves, or circumstances may require. Cogan.

MEMORY-Active Powers of.

Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain;

Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise! Each stamps its image as the other flies. Pope.

MEMORY-Sorrows of.

I ought to grieve, but cannot what I ought:
I mourn the lover, not lament the fault;
I view my crime, but kindle at the view,
Repent old pleasures, and solicit new;
Now, turn'd to heaven, I weep my past
offence;

Now think of thee, and curse my innocence.
Of all affliction taught a lover yet,

'Tis sure the hardest science to forget. Pope. MEMORY-Training of.

It is a fact well attested by experience, that the memory may be seriously injured by pressing upon it too hardly and continuously in early life. Whatever theory we hold as to this great function of our nature, it is certain that its powers are only gradually developed; and that, if forced into premature exercise, they are impaired by the effort. This is a maxim, indeed, of general import, applying to the condition and culture of every faculty of body and mind, but singularly to the one we are now considering, which forms, in one sense, the foundation of intellectual life. A regulated exercise, short of fatigue, is improving to it; but we are bound to refrain from goading it by constant and laborious efforts in early life, and before the instrument is strengthened to its work, or it decays under our hands. Sir H. Holland.