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to be contented with our lot, and endeavour to rake
the best of it. One great lesson, however, I wish you
to derive from this globe-lecture. You see that no
part of the world is void of our human brethren, who,
amidst all the diversities of character and condition,
are yet all men, filling the station im which their
Creator has placed them. We are too apt to look at the
differences of mankind, and to undervalue all those who
do not agree with us in matters that we think of high
importance. But who are we—and what cause have
we to think ourselves right, and all others wrong?
Can we imagine that hundreds of millions of our
species in other parts of the world are left destitute
of what is essential to their well-being, while a
favoured few, like ourselves, are the only ones who
possess it? Having all a common nature, we must
necessarily agree in more things than we differ. The
road to virtue and happiness is alike open to all.
The mode of pursuit is various; the end is the same.

 

ENVY AND EMULATION.

Av one of the celebrated schools of painting in
Italy, a young man, named Guidotto, produced a piece
so excellent, that it was the admiration of the masters
in the art, who all declared it to be their opinion, that
he could not fail of rising to the summit of his pro-
fession, should he proceed as he had begun.

This performance was looked upon with very dif-
ferent eyes by two of his fellow-scholars. Brunello,
the elder of them, who had himself acquired some
reputation in his studies, was mortified in the highest
degree at this superiority of Guidotto; and regarding
all the honour his rival had acquired, as so much taken
from himself, he conceived the most rancorous dislike
of him, and longed for nothing so much as to see him
lose the credit he had gained. Afraid openly to deery
the merit of a work which had obtained the approba-