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 THE WONDERFUL MINI) 
 
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 MAN AND THE WOMAN, 
 
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 THEIR WAY IN LIFE. 
 
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 REV. M. W. WYNN 
 
 Published by M. W. Wynn, Peter Gray and B. 
 M. Pace & Co., A D. 1884. 
 
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 J. S. Hampton & Co., Steam Printers. 
 
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THE WONDERFUL MIND 
 
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 MAN AND THE WOMAN, 
 
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 THEIR WAY IN LIFE. 
 
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 REV. M. W. W-YNN, 
 
 Published by M. W. Wynn, Peter Gray and B. 
 M. Pace & Co., A D. 1884. 
 
 
 GREENSBORO: C*^ •• ? 
 J. S. Hampton & Co., Steam Printers. 
 

 Entered According to Act of Congress, in the 
 Year 1884, 
 
 By Moses W. Wynn, 
 in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Now, we find that there is no end to books. 
 So, the writer of this little book feels, and 
 hopes, that it will be a useful thing to the 
 mind of the man and the woman, and while 
 the mind of the man and the woman are al- 
 ways desirous to be awakened to its benefit 
 interest, so let us ever try and look to the 
 tuture, and pray, and watch, and rejoice in the 
 God of our salvation, and, dear readers, be 
 careful to select choice and profitable works 
 well adapted to expand, develop and decip- 
 line the minds, to invigorate and elevate the 
 heart and soul, to store and strengthen the 
 memory, to vitalize, direct, and establish the 
 will in prosecuting good resolutions for God, 
 for humanity, and for heaven. But especially 
 did I feel my responsiblity, and my mind 
 cherish a thirst for sacred knowledge, after my 
 conversion to God, to do good and to win 
 souls to Christ. 
 
 Moses Warren Wynn. 
 
 Greensboro, N. C, Sept., 1884. 
 
CHAPTER L 
 
 THE WONDERFUL MIND OF THE MAN AND THE 
 WOMAN AND THEIR WAY IN LIFE. 
 
 And it has been said by men of old times 
 that the day breaks about 90 miles in a min- 
 ute, and the wild goose flies from 60 to 90 
 miles an hour. But the wonderful mind of 
 the man flashes around the world about 90 
 miles in a second, because you may ask a good 
 thinking man a very important question and 
 before that man will give you an answer he 
 will look up toward the heavens and down to 
 the green earth, because his mind begins to 
 wander from place to place, and it is said by 
 the great calculators that it is about 90 mil- 
 lion miles from the earth to the sun, and we 
 see every day how quick that wonderful mind 
 of the man directs his eye up to the sun, and 
 the mind of the man is the thinking faculty, 
 and the intelligent power in man, and the un- 
 derstanding of the soul, and the life of the 
 man and the woman is very grand indeed, be- 
 cause God made it glorious to behold, and the 
 man is bold but the woman is beautiful, the 
 man is courageous but the woman is timid, 
 the man labors in the field but the woman 
 works at the house, and the mans mind leads 
 him to talk to the woman and to persuade her 
 mind to please him. And we see that the man 
 has a daring heart but the woman has a ten- 
 der, loving heart, the man has power but the 
 woman has taste, the man has justice but the 
 woman has mercy, the man has strength but 
 woman has love, and while the man is combat- 
 ing with his energy and struggling with the 
 world, but we find the mind of the woman 
 
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 leads her at the house waiting to prepare the 
 man's meals and to sweeten his existence. 
 The man has his crosses but the woman is at 
 the house to soften them, and the man's . mind 
 may be sad and troubled, but in the loving 
 arms of the woman the man's mind finds com- 
 fort and rest. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Now the man has strength and the exercise 
 of his power and his mind is busy; he goes 
 about, he thuiks, he looks forward to the fu- 
 ture, and his mind finds consolation in the af- 
 fairs of the world. But the woman's mind 
 leads her at the house, and she remains there 
 face to face with her sorrows and troubles and 
 her eyes are often filled with tears and the 
 woman remains at the house to feel, to love, 
 to suffer, and to devote herself with the affairs 
 at the house, and that will always be the sub- 
 ject of woman's life. Now, look at the man. 
 He has a precise and distinct language, but 
 the woman has a peculiarly musical and mag- 
 ical language, and the woman is heard scat- 
 tering her words here and there with a song, 
 and the woman's mind leads her to be very af- 
 fectionate, indeed, and her mind is always in 
 need of something to lean upon, like the vine 
 that runs upon the fence; and we the man's 
 mind is directed to the house by the affections 
 of the woman's mind, and the consolation she 
 gives him to protect and support her, and the 
 woman is both superior and inferior to the 
 man because she was the mother of our Sav- 
 ior, which made her superior to man, and sec- 
 ond, the woman is inferior to man because she 
 
was made out of the rib of the man. But yet 
 she is humbled by the heavy hand of nature, 
 and at the same time the woman is inspired by 
 the immediate knowledge of a higher order 
 than the man can ever experience, and the 
 woman has already charmed the man's mind 
 and innocently bewitched him forever and the 
 man's mind still remains enchanted by the wo- 
 man has a more stronger affection than the 
 man, and a man with a bad heart has often 
 been saved by the strong mind of a woman 
 and the wonderful mind of a woman will often 
 decide a question at once, to which the man's 
 mind would be pausing over for hours and still 
 finding his mind getting deeper and deeper 
 into doubts and difficulties. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Now look at the woman again and see how 
 peculiar she is and how quick she will decide 
 in her wonderful mind about a man. Just as 
 soon as she looks the man in his eyes she will 
 decide at once whether he is honest or not 
 and if the woman fully decides in her mind 
 that the man she met or came in contact with 
 was dishonest, she will stand to her opinion 
 though she may not assign any particular rea- 
 son for such an opinion of the man. But she 
 will say, I do not like the looks of his eyes for 
 they do not- look right; and the woman will 
 stand to that in her mind. Like the woman 
 did at one time when she had decided in her 
 wonderful mind to aggravate her husband by 
 calling him old Crack-louse. So she continu- 
 ed to call him that old name for a long time; 
 finally he said to her, I want you to stop call- 
 
ing me old Crack-louse, and if you don't I will 
 knock you down, but she would cry out and 
 say, you are old Crack-louse, and at that time 
 the old fellow knocked her down, but when 
 she raised her head up she said, you are old 
 Crack-louse, and he continued to knock her, 
 but she would cry out every time old Crack- 
 louse, and finally the old fellow chocked the 
 old lady so that she could not talk loud, but 
 she would work her mouth or whisper and say 
 easy, you are old Crack-louse, and when he 
 had beaten and choked her so that she could 
 not talk loud nor whisper, so while she laid 
 on the floor, she opened her eyes and looked 
 him in the eyes and then put her two thumbs 
 together as though she was cracking a louse, 
 to let him know that her mind was fully made 
 up to call him old C. L., and he could not 
 change her mind. 
 
 Now this is one great distinction of the wo- 
 man's intellect for it walks directly by a more 
 delicate insight, and a more refined and trust- 
 ed knowledge, to which as man's mind gropes 
 along and the woman's mind has already ex- 
 ercised the greatest beneficial influence in sof- 
 tening the hard and untruthful heart* of man, 
 by which knowledge is apt to assume in the 
 hands of direct observers, and the woman's 
 mind have prevented the casting away the 
 great and valuable truths which is too fine to 
 be caught in a material sieve, and the wo- 
 man holds the fine boundary line where the 
 mind, matter, sense, and spirit wave their 
 floating and undistinguishable boundaries, and 
 exercise their complex action and re-action, 
 and when a woman is in possession of a high 
 degree of skill, she can see when any little 
 

 trouble is about to take place, then she will 
 say in a calm way, things are not going right 
 now, and the woman notices the eye of the 
 man, and she can see any sudden turn in the 
 man's conversation, and at once she prepares 
 her mind to meet him halfway, and above all 
 the woman can penetrate into the state of 
 man's mind so as to detect the gathering 
 gloom upon his brow, before the clouds can 
 thunder too loud, and the woman's mind can 
 perceive any unwelcome that has been present- 
 ed by the man's mind, and she knows when 
 the pulse of feeling is beating higher or lower 
 on account of some trifling circumstance which 
 has just taken place, and the woman can 
 change the feeling of social life, and the cur- 
 rent of feelings so suddenly and in such a way 
 that the man can not see her at all times, and 
 that is done by the power which nature gives 
 the woman, and the woman saves society a 
 jgpreat many times from pain which would be 
 apt to rise from the bad management of the 
 man's mind as in the case when David sent to 
 a certain man once to send him some provis- 
 ions, and the man's mind led him not to send 
 it. But the wonderful mind of the woman 
 thought at once that David was a king; and 
 she knew that there would be a great trouble 
 with her husband; so she with her men went 
 to meet David, and gave him some provisions. 
 But notwithstanding the man's mind led him 
 to send David's officers back without any pro- 
 visions, but the woman's mind led her to go 
 and meet David and present to him some pro- 
 visions, and for such she saved a great trouble 
 on herself and husband. 
 
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 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Now look at the man's mind and see the 
 way it leads him to be the creature of interest 
 and ambition and his nature leads him out into 
 the world to struggle, and the man's mind 
 seeks for high and noble things in the estima- 
 tion of the world, and to rule over his fellow- 
 men. But the woman's mind is not that way 
 but we find the woman's mind and whole life 
 is a history of affections, for such is the wo- 
 man's world* and it is there her greatest love 
 seeks for hidden treasures, and her mind sends 
 out her sympathies on the man as he goes out 
 into the world, and the woman embarks her 
 whole soul in the merchandise of affection and 
 love, and if she gets broke in that trade, her 
 mind and heart becomes bankrupted, and not 
 her poeket. 
 
 But the man's mind is not so, for if he gets 
 disappointed in love, it may sometimes give a 
 bitter pain to the mind and wound some feel- 
 ings of tenderness, and it may blast some pros- 
 pects of great happiness. But the man may 
 scatter his thoughts in the whirl of occupation 
 or go away into great pleasures, to get clear 
 of his troubles and his mind is soon at ease 
 again. 
 
 Like the man that w r ent to town once on a 
 big day, and while being there on that day, 
 his wonderful mind led him to take a drink, 
 and that drink called for another, and that for 
 another, until the poor fellow became very un- 
 ruly in the streets of the town; so at last his 
 friends made up their minds to put him away 
 so that he would not disturb the peace. So 
 they locked him up in a very large cellar, and 
 

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 he being unconscious about where he was; so 
 he awoke way lite in the night and got up 
 from where he was laying and looked all 
 around and about, and then he began to feel 
 about and a great many drunken men gener- 
 ally do when they fall down they reach up for 
 the ground. So that fellow, after feeling all 
 around and over, his head, he could not see 
 nor feel any top, no bottom nor sides, so all 
 at once he looked up and made a long sigh, 
 and he decided in his mind at once that he 
 was in hell; so the poor fellow cried out and 
 said, well, dead and in hell just as I expeeted, 
 and said he, I wonder if there is any place 
 around here that a fellow can get a drink at. 
 Now we see how that man's mind went and 
 come. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 x Now the woman has no natural gift that is 
 more bewitching to the man's mind than that 
 of a sweet laugh, for it is like the sound of a 
 clarionet upon the waters, and it 1 ads from the 
 woman's mind in a clear, sparkling rill, and 
 the heart that hears that voice feels very glad 
 indeed, and no doubt that you have pursued 
 an unseen figure through the trees led on by a 
 gentle laugh, now here, now there, now lost, 
 now found, and the wonderful mind of the 
 man is pursuing that wandering and loving 
 voice of the woman to-day. And now in the 
 midst of care and sorrow, and then we turn 
 away and listen, and soon we hear that won- 
 derful mind of the woman is changed and we 
 hear her voice ringing throughout the house 
 like a silver bell, with power to drive away the 
 
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 evil spirits from her mind, and now we see 
 how much the man's mind is indebted to that 
 sweet laugh, for it turns prose to poetry, and 
 it flings showers of sunshine over the darkness 
 of the wood in which we are traveling, and we 
 always see more of heaven than we do of earth, 
 and the man's mind always leads him to look 
 for more women, than men, and the man's 
 mind is seldom unhappy while he has the love 
 and smiles of the woman to go with him in 
 every department of life and the world may 
 look dark without, but when the man returns 
 to his house and feels the tender love of the 
 woman, that man's mind forget his cares and 
 troubles for a little while, and there is no pe- 
 culiarity of character so valuable in a woman 
 than to have a sweet mild temper and the 
 home of the man will not be happy unless the 
 woman is in possession of that great talent, 
 for it is like the flowers that spring up in our 
 road, reviving and cheering us on our way. 
 Now let a man go home at night wearied with 
 the toils of the day, but how good that man's 
 mind feels when a kind word comes from a 
 good loving mind of the woman, for it is like 
 the sunshine falling on his heart, and soon the 
 cares of life is forgotten, and when you see a 
 woman with true intelligence she is a blessing 
 at home and abroad and in society, and wher- 
 ever she goes she carries with her a health- 
 giving influence, and there is a beautiful har- 
 mony about her character, that at once in- 
 spires a respect that soon warms into love, and 
 that man who gets out of the way of the fe- 
 male society, is like a blind man, for beauty 
 has no charms for a blind man, and music does 
 not please a poor beast who does not know 
 
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 one tune from another, and there is one good 
 blessing about the man, he is bound to respect 
 the woman, and sometimes the woman's mind 
 and heart twines around a proud and sinful 
 spirit like roses round a lightning rod, cling- 
 ing for help, and it often brings down upon 
 her head the thunderbolts of woe. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 Now you have a sketch of the national pe- 
 culiarity of the woman's mind and character in 
 four different parts of the world, England, 
 France, Italy and America. I. The English 
 woman is respectful and proud. 2. The French 
 woman is gay and agreeable. 3. The Italian 
 woman is zealous and passionate. 4. The 
 American woman is sincere and affectionate. 
 With the American woman's mind love is a 
 principle, with the French woman's mind love 
 is -a caprice, with the Italian woman's mind love 
 is a passion, with the American woman's mind 
 love is a sentiment on a thought prompted by 
 feelings. Now, for the minds of these women 
 in marrying: The English woman's mind is 
 to marry a Lord, the French woman's mind is 
 to marry a companion, the Italian woman's 
 mind is to marry a lover, and the American 
 woman's mind is to marry a husband. Now, 
 for the man, in respect to the woman: The 
 English man's mind is to respect his lady, the 
 French man's mind is to esteem his compan- 
 ion, the Italian man's mind is to worship his 
 mistress, and the American man's mind r is to 
 love his wife. And at night the English man's 
 mind leads him to his house, the French man's 
 mind leads him to his establishment, the Ital- 
 
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 ian man's mind leads him to his private place, 
 and the American man's goes to his home, 
 and it is hoped that the American will go to 
 his home a little oftener than the Irish man 
 called on the Lord, for there was an Irishman 
 at sea once, and he fell over board, and when 
 he found out that he was about to be lost, he 
 cried out and said, Lord, I am not one of them 
 that is always hollowing and bawling after 
 thee, but if you will just deliver me now I will 
 never call upon you any more. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 And the strongest man feels the influence 
 of the woman's gentle and thoughtful mind, as 
 it was with the wonderful mind of David's 
 wife, the daughter of Saul, when she secured 
 David, by pretending that David was in the 
 house when he was out, and never did. Lan- 
 guage speaks so truthful, as when she called 
 the woman the better half of the man, and the 
 man's mind admires the ladies because they 
 are beautiful. The man's mind respects the 
 ladies because they are virtuous. The man's 
 mind worships the ladies because they are in- 
 telligent, and the man's mind loves the ladies 
 because they cannot help themselves. And 
 we see that a woman's mind is more ingenious 
 than a man's mind, and it seems to be so de- 
 signed by the all-wise Creator, for the preseva- 
 tion and perpetuity for the race of mankind, 
 and the patience, the fortitude, the integrity, 
 the piety, and the devotion of the woman's 
 mind, are naturally stronger than the man's 
 mind, and we read that the wonderful mind of 
 the woman was the first to break the law. 
 
Yes, and we read again that the wonderful 
 mind of the woman was the first to amend the 
 law on earth by being the mother of our 
 Saviour. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 Now, look at the woman's mind again and 
 see how it led her. Yes, that wonderful mind 
 led the woman to stand by the Cross, and see 
 the last of our Saviour, while dying on the 
 Cross, where the man's mind and heart had 
 failed him; and the woman's mind led her to 
 embalm the Saviour's sacred body. Yes, the 
 woman's mind led her to the Saviour's tomb, 
 very early on Sunday morning. Now, see the 
 firmness of the woman's mind under afflictions, 
 especially physically, for. it has been proved 
 as a nurse that one woman will stand more 
 than five men. Then again look at the woman's 
 mind about her soul's salvation, and we find, 
 as a general thing, that there are five women 
 to one man that has decided in their mind to 
 seek their soul's salvation and to connect them- 
 selves with the Church, and the woman's 
 wonderful mind has exercised a great and re- 
 markable judgment in regard to the great is- 
 sue of times, and her mind has prevented the 
 casting away the great and noble plans which 
 have led to great and remarkable discoveries 
 and inventions, as when Columbus laid the 
 plan to discover the New World, and Colum- 
 bus applied to the man, but the mind of the 
 man led him to laugh and turn his back on 
 Columbus and his great plans. But the wonder- 
 ful mind of the woman led her to hear his 
 plans and to help him carry them out, and the 
 
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 wonderful mind of the woman equips the man 
 for the voyage of life. But the woman is sel- 
 dom a leader. But she meets the man as a 
 helper, and the man executes the project. 
 -But the woman fits him out for the task, as 
 Isabella did Columbus, when her wonderful 
 mind led her to sell her jewelry, to lay down 
 her vanities and her comforts, to send the man 
 out for the good of the world, and such is the 
 wonderful mind of the man and the woman 
 
 | CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Now, see how poor Katie's mind changed: 
 Once there was an old lady who had decided 
 within her mind, and a great desire also, to go 
 to Heaven, and every morning poor Katie 
 would get up very early and pray to Master 
 Jesus to send Master Angel down to carry poor 
 Kate home to Heaven, and this she did every 
 morning. But at last the overseer or head 
 man on the plantation heard poor Kate pray- 
 ing, and the head man on the plantation de- 
 cided in his wonderful mind at once, what he 
 would do to old Katie on the next morning 
 following. So, early the next morning the 
 overseer got up before the old lady did and 
 went to Katie's house, and she got up. She 
 began to pray to Master Jesus to send Master 
 Angel down to carry poor Katie home to 
 Heaven. So, while she was speaking these 
 words, the overseer knocked at the door very 
 loud, and Katie stopped praying and said who 
 is that. Then the overseer said, I am Master 
 Angel, come down to carry poor Katie home 
 to Heaven, and at that time the old lady 
 jumped up and said with a sharp and loud 
 
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 voice. Poor Katie is not here, she has not been 
 here for two weeks. And such was the chang- 
 ing of her mind. And we see, again, that it 
 does not take a woman a great while to dress 
 herself. But it takes the woman a very long 
 time to decide in her wonderful mind which is 
 the right and which is the left shoe, and what 
 kind of a show she will make after she gets 
 dressed. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 Now, the wonderful mind of the man and 
 the woman are like the human pulse, and as 
 the pulse beats very fast, indeed, and so it is 
 with the wonderful mind. It changes very 
 fast, indeed, and as the pulse is a throbbing of 
 the arteries caused by intermitting impulses 
 communicated to the blood by the heart. And 
 30 it is with the wonderful mind of the man 
 and the woman. It flashes and charges about 
 by which a thought takes place, and works 
 upon the brain, through which the mouth and 
 tongue commits to memory and the hands 
 and feet perform the duty. And within the 
 limits of health there may be considerable 
 variation, in the frequency of the pulse, and 
 the number of times the pulse beats in a minute, 
 differs very much with age, sex, stature, mus- 
 cular action and mental action. The state of 
 the digestive process, the time of the day, and 
 the average frequency per minute, is approxi- 
 mately indicated by the following table, given 
 by Mr. Carpenter, one of the great calculators 
 of pulses, and as there is such a great differ- 
 ence between the beating of the man's pulse 
 and the woman's pulse, and so it is a great dif- 
 
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 ference between their minds in changing, etc. 
 Now, we look at the beating of the pulse, from 
 a newly born infant to that of old age. Now, 
 the pulse in a newly born infant beats from 
 130 to 140 times in a minute, and during the 
 first year the pulse beats 115 to 130 times in a 
 minute, and during the second year the pulse 
 beats 100 to 1 1 5 times a minute, and during the 
 third year the pulse beats 75 to 105 times a 
 minute, and from the seventh to the fourteenth 
 year the pulse beats 80 to 90 times a minute, 
 and from th^ fourteenth to twenty-first year 
 the pulse beats 75 to 85 times a minute, and 
 from the twenty-first to the sixtieth year the 
 pulse beats 70 to 75 times a minute, and during 
 old age the pulse beats 75 to 80 times a min- 
 ute, and the pulse of a grown woman exceeds 
 that of a man of the same age as much as 10 to 
 I4beats a minute, and the average beating of the 
 pulse per minute in standing, sitting and lying, 
 is, standing, a healthy man's pulse beats 81 
 times in a minute, sitting, 71 times in a minute, 
 lying, 66 times in a minute, standing, a healthy 
 woman's pulse beats 91 times in a minute, sit- 
 ting, 84 times in a minute, lying, 76 times in a 
 minute. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 Now, for the woman's mind beating the 
 man's mind. Some years ago a celebrated 
 lawyer in England was examining a very young 
 lady, who was a witness in a case in court, and 
 the lawyer asked the lady if the person who 
 was assaulted did not give the defendant some 
 very ill language, and uttered words so bad 
 that I cannot repeat them, and the lady said, 
 
yes, sir. Well, said the lawyer to the lady, 
 will you please, madame, be so kind as to re- 
 peat.the words to the court. Then, replied 
 the woman, with her woqderful and thought- 
 ful mind, said to the man, why, sir, after know- 
 ing all the words yourself, and if you have not 
 impudence enough in your mind and brass 
 enough on your face to speak the words in 
 court, how can you think that I can speak 
 such impudent words as they were in court? 
 So you can speak them yourself, and I will 
 answer to them, right or wrong. 
 
 The man's mind, on the sweetness of the night, 
 How sweet these sacred hours of rest, 
 The fair portraits of the virtuous breast, 
 Where lawless lust and passion rude, 
 And folly never dare intrude ! 
 Be others choice the sparkling bowl, 
 And mirth the passion of the soul ; 
 But a nobler jov my mind's design, 
 Instructive solitude be mine, be mine. 
 That silent, calm repast 
 A cheerful conscience to the last. 
 
 The pleasing and comforting, loving mind 
 of the woman. Oh ! if there is one law above 
 the rest written in reason; if there is a word 
 that I would trace as with a pen of fire upon 
 the unsunned temper of a child; it there is 
 any thing that keeps the mind open to angel 
 visits and repels the ill spirits, it is a loving hu- 
 man mind, and God has made nothing worthy 
 of contempt, for the smallest pebble in the 
 wall of truth has its peculiar meaning, and it 
 will stand when the man's best mind, and 
 minutes have passed away, and the law of 
 Heaven is love. Though that law has been 
 usurped by passion, and profaned to its unholy 
 
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 uses through all times, but still the eternal 
 principle is pure, and in these deep affections 
 we feel the great power of love in us, for every 
 bird that sings above our heads, and every 
 creature feeding on the hills, and every tree 
 and flower and running brook, we see how 
 everything was made to love. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 The thought of ^he wonderful mind of the 
 man. Befcfre the foundations of the world 
 were laid, before the kindling light, the Al- 
 mighty word obeyed, thou wert, and when the 
 subterraneous flame shall burst its prison and 
 devour this from the angry Heaven. When 
 the keen lightning flies. When fervent heat 
 dissolves the melting skies, thou still shalt be 
 as thou were betore, and know no change 
 when time shall^be no more. 
 
 Father of all! in every age, in every clime 
 adored by saint, by savage, and by sage, 
 Jehovah Jove! thou great first cause, least un- 
 derstood who all my sense confined to know, 
 but thou art good and I am blind, yet gave me, 
 in this dark estate, to see the good from the 
 evil, and binding nature fast in fate, he left the 
 human mind still free. What conscience dic- 
 tates to be done, or warns me not to do, then 
 teach me more thy love to know what bless- 
 ings thy free bounty gives. Let me not cast 
 away, for God is paid when man receives, and 
 to enjoy is to obey. Yet not to earth's con- 
 tracted span thy goodness let me bound; let 
 not this weak, unknowing hand presume thy 
 bolts to throw, and if I am right, thy grace 
 impart, still in the right to stay, and if I am 
 
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 wrong, O! teach my heart to find that better 
 way. Oh! save me alike from foolish pride 
 and impious discontent, and teach me to fee! 
 another's woe and hide the fault I see; that 
 mercy I to others show, that mercy show to 
 me. Mean though I am, not wholly so since 
 I was quickened by thy grace: O! lead me, 
 wheresoever I go, through this day's life or 
 death ! This day be bread and peace to my 
 mind all else beneath the sun. Thou knowest 
 if best bestow r ed or not, and let thy will be 
 done. 
 
 The wonderful mind about riches. Can 
 gold calm passion or make reason shine? Who 
 can dig wisdom from the mine or pit? Yes, 
 wisdom to gold my mind prefers, for it is much 
 less to make our fortune than our happiness. 
 That happiness which great ones often see 
 with rage and wonder, in a low degree, them- 
 selves unblessed, and the poor are only poor. 
 But what are they who droop amid their store? 
 And nothing is meaner than a wretch of state, 
 the happy only are the truly great, and the 
 peasants enjoy like appetites with kings and 
 those best satisfied with cheapest things. 
 
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