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If we could only begin at the other end—begin at seventy, and live the other way, how beautifully we could have lived and what babies we should have ended with, But nature didn’t arrange it | so, perhaps couldn't, and so we begin doing everything we ought not to do, too much, and everything we ought to do, too’ little, until we find we have made a botch of what might have cen a success, if we had not been born so Theo. Brown, “ Letters.”" a young. — Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough carthliness. These eighty thousand daily births of which statistics tell us, represent as it were an effusion of innocence and freshness, strug gling not only against the death of the race but against human corruption, and the universal gangrene of sin. All the good and wholesome feeling which is intertwined with childhood ar the cradle is one of the secrets of the provi dential government of the world. Suppress this life-giving dew, and human society would be scorched and devastated by selfish passion. St posing that humanity had been composed of a thousand millions of immortal beings, whose number could neither increase nor diminish, where should we be! A thousand times more learned, no doubt, but a thousand times more evil, There would have been a vast accumula tion of science, but all the virtues engendered by uffering and devotion—that is to say, by the family and society—would have no existence. And for this there would be no compensation Blessed be childhood for the good that it does, and for the good which it brings about care. lessly and unconsciously by simply making us love it and letting itself be loved. What little of paradise we see still on earth is due to its presence among us.—Amiel’s Journal. Send for this Book Cape Cod’s the, place where you would enjoy yourself this summer. 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