Upon this consideration, the physicians and his nearest friends were continually urging him to lay aside all thoughts of a profession which appeared so extremely prejudicial to his health. But Cicero showed himself equally inflexible to the advice of the one, and the entreaties of the other; and declared his resolution rather to run the risk of any danger that might happen, than deprive himself of the glory which he might justly challenge from the bara.

7. Bacon's great attainments were not checked by the feebleness of his constitution, or by his occupations in active life. He says, "We judge also that mankind may conceive some hopes from our example, which we offer, not by way of ostentation, but because it may be useful. If any one therefore should despair, let him consider a man as much employed in civil affairs as any other of his age, a man of no great share of health, who must therefore have lost much time, and yet, in

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this undertaking, he is the first that leads the way, unassisted by any mortal, and steadfastly entering the true path, that was absolutely untrod before, and submitting his mind to things, may somewhat have advanced the design."

8. The power of the love of knowledge is irresistible; it surmounts all obstacles which are opposed by external circumstances: it is not diverted from its object by the tumult of business, the distresses of poverty, or the interruptions of a wandering life: it may indeed be impeded for a time, but it is never destroyed. When waves interpose, love converts his quiver into a canoe, one arrow is his mast, another is his oar.

Over the mountains,

And over the waves:

Under the fountains,

And under the graves:
Under floods that are deepest
Which Neptune obey:
Over rocks that are steepest

Love will find out the way,

Where there is no place

For the glow-worm to lie, Where there is no space

For receipt of a fly:

Where the midge dares not venture,
Lest herself fast she lay,
If Love come, he will enter
And soon find out the way.

Query JJJ.

Does not the Art of Education chiefly consist not in giving Knowledge, but in giving a Desire to know?

THE duties of an instructor seem to be stated by Lord Bacon in the "Advancement of Learning," where, with his usual authority of conscious wisdom and happiness of familiar illustration, he says, "The delivery of knowledge is as of fair bodies of trees; if you mean to use the shoot, as the builder doth, it is no matter for the roots: but if you mean it to grow, as the planter doth, look you well that the slip hath part of the root."

The office of a teacher is therefore two-fold; first, to inculcate knowledge for use, which must

depend upon the probable future situation of his pupil; secondly, knowledge for growth, or the desire of continual improvement; of the daily consciousness of being daily wiser and better. "The skilful tutor," says Milton, "will temper his pupils with such lectures and explanations, upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages; that they may despise and scorn all their childish and ill taught qualities, to delight in manly and liberal exercises; which he who hath the art and proper eloquence to catch them with, might in a short space gain them to an incredible diligence and courage; infusing into their young breasts such an ingenuous and noble ardour, as would not fail to make many of them renowned and matchless men, And to the neglect of this part of education he has chiefly ascribed "the fixedness of young men in