the correct and profound estimate of life, the serenest spirit of duty and of faith, are scarcely found till most of the lessons of our mortal state have been read, and the soul has caught some snatches of inspiration from the "still sad music of humanity." We may even say, that perhaps alı our faculties do not develop themselves here; and whole classes of emotions and conceptions may wait to be born beneath other influences. Certain at least it is, that one who dies in infancy can have little idea of any thing beyond sensation; that one who falls in childhood cannot know the toils and triumphs of the pure reason; that one who dies in youth has not yet learned the sense of power which belongs to the practised exercise of creative thought, and the sacred peace of disinterested duty long tried in trembling and in tears. Certain, too, it is, that to the open mind fresh gleamings enter to the last; strange stirrings of diviner sympathies; waves of thin, transparent light flitting through the spaces of the aged mind, like the Aurora of the north across the wintry sky. Even when "maturity" has been passed, then we may die, peradventure, ignorant of the secret fountains of illumination that may be sequestered in the recesses of our nature; and when we depart at threescore years and ten, our experience may be as truly imperfect, as much a mere fragment, as when we lapse in a mortality called falsely "premature.” MARTINEAU. THE WAR OF THE LEAGUE. Now glory to the Lord of Hosts, from whom all glories are' And thou, Rochelle, our own Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. 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