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how much more so at Nature's summit, the Soul! And it speaks of partnership, of union. Let us accept the swift exchange which, in the individual, exists between the diverse elements; let us accept the superior Law which unites the living members of the same body-Humanity; and, still more, let us accept and respect the supreme Law which makes us co-operate with the great Soul, associated as we are-in proportion with our powers-with the loving harmony of the world-copartners in the life of God.

QUESTIONS.-1. What are three great forms of Nature? 2. What is said of the Air-ocean? 3. How does the Ocean address itself to man?

LESSON CVIII.

MO NOP' O LIZ ED, engrossed.
CEL'E BRA TED, praised; talked of.
Po' TENT LY, powerfully.
MAR'I TIME, pertaining to sea.
SA GAC I TY, acuteness.

IN TRE PID' I TY, daring valor.
SAN' GUINE, bloody; cruel.

EC CEN TRICITY, peculiarity; odd-
WA' RI NESS, cautiousness. [ity.
ED' I BLE, eatable.

E MAN' CI PA TED, freed; liberated.
IN TER ME DI ATE, lying betwee:1.
DEV' AS TA TING, laying waste.
DOUB' LE, sail around.

1 BASQUES, (basks,) an ancient and peculiar people, living on the slopes of the Pyrenees Mountains.

2 BRETON, a native of Brittany, an ancient province in France.

3 NOR MAN, that is, Northman, a name given to the ancient inhabitants of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, and, afterward to their descendants who settled in the north of France.

THE WHALE AND THE WHALER.

FROM THE FRENCH OF MICHELET.

1. WHо opened up to men the great distant navigation ? Who revealed the ocean, and marked out its zones and its liquid highways? Who discovered the secrets of the globe? The Whale and the Whaler! And all this before Colum

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bus and the famous gold-seekers, who have monopolized all the glory, found again, with much outcry about their discovery, what had so long before been discovered by the

whalers.

2. That crossing of the ocean, which was so boastfully celebrated in the fifteenth century, had often been made, not only by the narrow passage between Iceland and Greenland, but, also, by the open sea; for the Basques' went to Newfoundland. The smallest danger was the mere voyage; for these men, who went to the very end of the then known world, to challenge the whale to single combat, to steer right away into the Northern Sea, to attack the mighty monster, amid darkness and storms, with the dense fog all around, and the foaming waves below, -those who could do this, were not the men to shrink from the ordinary dangers of the voyage.

3. Noble warfare! Great school of courage! That fishery was not then, as it is now, an easy war to wage, made from a distance, and with a potently murderous machine. No; the fisher then struck with his own strong hand, impelled and guided by his own fearless heart, and he risked life to take life. The men of that day killed but few whales; but they gained infinitely in maritime ability, in patience, in sagacity, and in intrepidity. They brought back less of oil; but more, far more of glory.

4. Every nation has its own peculiar genius. We recognize each by its own style of procedure. There are a hundred forms of courage, and these graduated varieties formed. as it were, another heroic game. At the North, the Scandinavian, the rude race from Norway to Flanders, had their sanguine fury. At the South, the wild burst, the gay daring, the clear-headed excitement, that impelled, at once, and guided them over the world. In the center, the silent and patient firmness of the Breton', who yet, in the hour of danger,

could display a quite sublime eccentricity. And, lastly, the Norinan3 wariness, considerately courageous; daring all, but daring all for success. Such was the beauty of man, in that sovereign manifestation of human courage.

5. We owe a vast deal to the whale. But for it, the fishers would still have hugged the shore; for, almost every edible fish seeks the shore and the river.

It was the whale

that emancipated them, and led them afar. It led them onward, and onward still, until they found it, after having almost unconsciously passed from one world to the other. Greenland did not seduce them; it was not the land that they sought; but the sea, and the tracks of the whale. 6. The ocean at large is its home, and especially the broad and open sea. Each species has its especial preference for this or that latitude, -for a certain zone of water, more or less cold. And it was that preference which traced out the great divisions of the Atlantic. The tribe of inferior whales, that have a dorsal fin, are to be found in the warmest and in the coldest seas,-under the line and in the polar seas.

7. In the great intermediate region, the fierce Cachalot inclines toward the south, devastating the warm waters. On the contrary, the Free Whale fears the warm waters, -we should rather say, that they did, formerly, fear them,—they have become so scarce. They are never found in the warm southern current; it is that fact that led to the current being noticed, and thence to the discovery of the true course from America to Europe. From Europe to America, the trade winds will serve us.

8. If the Free Whale has a perfect horror of the warm. waters, and can not pass the equator, it is clear that he can not double the southern end of America. How happens it, then, that when he is wounded on one side of America, in

the Atlantic, he is sometimes found on the other side of America, and in the Pacific? It proves that there is a north-western passage. Another discovery which we owe to the whale, and one which throws a broad light alike on the form of the globe, and the geography of the seas!

9. By degrees, the whale has led us everywhere. Rare as he is at present, he has led us to both poles, from the uttermost recesses of the Pacific to Behring's Strait, and the infinite wastes of the Antarctic waters. There is even an enormous region that no vessel, whether war ship or merchantman, ever traverses, at a few degrees beyond the southern points of America and Africa. No one visits that

region but the whaler.

QUESTIONS.-1. What has been done by the whaler? 2. By whom had Newfoundland been discovered? 3. What is said of the courage of the whaler? 4. What proof is given that there is a north-western passage, by water, from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

LESSON CIX.

IG NOBLE, mean; degraded.

THRALL' DOM, bondage; slavery.

HORDE, clan; tribe,

DES' POTS, tyrants.

RUFFIAN, robber; cut-throat.
SERV' ILE, slavish; cringing.
LIM' NER$, painters.

FEUD'AL, pertaining to military tenure. DIS CI' PLE, learner; follower.

PAL' TRY, mean; contemptible.

RAP' INE, (rap in ;) plunder; violence.

FOR SOOTH', in truth; in face.

CORSE, corpse; dead body.
BRAWL, wrangle; contention,
DIS TAIN' ED, sullied; stained
ECH' о ED, resounded.

RI EN ZI, the last of the Roman Tribunes, was born in Rome about the year 1310. He was assassinated Oct. 8th, 1354. He was a person of extraordinary eloquence. In his day, Rome was a prey to contending factions of nobles This kept the city in constant turmoil, and subjected the people to continual abuse and tyranny. It was the en leavor of Rienzi to arouse them to a resolution to be free.

RIENZI'S' ADDRESS TO THE ROMANS.

1. FRIENDS!

2.

3.

MISS MITFORD.

I come not here to talk. You know too well
The story of our thralldom. We are slaves!
The bright sun rises to his course, and lights
A race of slaves! He sets, and his last beam
Falls on a slave: not such as, swept along
By the full tide of power, the conqueror leads
To crimson glory and undying fame;

But base, ignoble slaves! slaves to a horde
Of petty tyrants, feudal despots, lords,
Rich in some dozen paltry villages;

Strong in some hundred spearmen; only great
In that strange spell,―a name.

Each hour, dark fraud,

Or open rapine, or protected murder,

Cries out against them. But this very day,
An honest man, my neighbor, there he stands,
Was struck, struck like a dog, by one who wore
The badge of Ursini; because, forsooth,
He tossed not high his ready cap in air,
Nor lifted up his voice in servile shouts,
At sight of that great ruffian!

And suffer such dishonor'?

The stain away in blood'?

(f.) Be we men,

MEN, and wash not

Such shames are commor !

I have known deeper wrongs. I, that speak to ye,
I had a brother once, a gracious boy,

Full of gentleness, of calmest hope,

Of sweet and quiet joy: there was the look

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