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"Why did not the Frenchsworth "The jack-tars would be delighted to go down in ships

and do business in such an element"

I further proceeded to explain, as well as I modestly could, several

points of Fourier's systee or two, and asking Hollingsworth's opinion as to the expediency of

introducing these beautiful peculiarities into our own practice

"Let ust "I never will

forgive this fellow! He has committed the unpardonable sin; for what

more monstrous iniquity could the Devil himself contrive than to choose

the selfish principle,--the principle of all hu, the very

blackness of man's heart, the portion of ourselves which we shudder at,

and which it is the whole aim of spiritual discipline to eradicate,--to

choose it as the master workman of his system? To seize upon and

foster whatever vile, petty, sordid, filthy, bestial, and abominable

corruptions have cankered into our nature, to be the efficient

instrueneration! And his consumency which he

counts upon for establishing it The nauseous villain!"

"Nevertheless," rehts

of his system,--so very proper, as they certainly are, to be