128 The Love of God.

‘For what are Giants but great men and great
women? and the world abounds with people who
confider themfelves as belonging to that clafs,
And a great many of them—Giants of Clevernefs,
Giants of Riches, Giants of Rank—Géiants of
I know not how many things befides, who are
walking about the world every day, very often
feel themfelves to be quite raifed above the point
of attending to trifles ; fo that you fee I may (in an
allegorical fenfe) fay ftriftly of them that they can-
not fee carraway feeds. Oh my dears, however
elevated you may be, or may become; however
great or rich or learned, beware, I pray you, of be-
ing a Giant who cannot fee a carraway feed !

For, as my explanation of the moral fenfe now
goes on to fhow you; it is fo far from being, as
thefe Giants fuppofe, a proof of their /uperiority
that they cannot fee or notice things they confider
beneath them—that it is, in faét, an evidence of
fome imperfection or defect in either their moral or
intellectual ftructure. Juft as it is a proof of our
eyes being imperfect, that we cannot fee the little
water infects as well as a great big elephant. I
am fure you will allow there is nothing to beaft of
in this, and fo if the contemplation of great things
makes you incapable of attending to {mall ones, do
remember that «¢ zs notiing to boaft about or be
proud of. And take very great care you make no
miftakes as to what is great and what is infignifi-
cant. With which warning I clofe my remarks
on the moral leflon, and proceed to that anagogical