TO BE HAPPY. 3

Happiness, then, is the end and object for —
which these creatures were made: and they
all, taken in a general view, attain.it. _ Life
to them is a blessing. It was given them by
a good and loving Creator, ‘who meant that
they should enjoy it. ~

And were not human beings made for
happiness too? Yes—andefor even greater
happiness than these birds, and insects, and
quadrupeds. We are made not only to enjoy
the pleasures of animal life, but those of the
heart and of the mind: we are not only made
to eat and drink, and perceive heat and cold,
but to feel the beauty of virtue, and the
grace of’ goodness; to enter the fields of
knowledge, and enjoy the boundless plea-
sures of thought.

The Creator, then, intended us for happi-
ness, but in giving us nobler endowments
than those of mere animals, he has bestowed
upon us liberty, or the power to act as we
please. Here, then, he made a great dif-
ference between us andthe beasts: he laid
them understhe laws of instinct: he placed
in each of them certain wonderful aptitudes,
habits, and powers, which g6vern and con-
trol them. Thus, obeying these laws, they