168 THE SHIPWRECK,

EPILOGUE.
Moral of this Narrative.

“Let us love one another,” is the conclusion that our
readers will draw from the preceding pages, if they have
perused them profitably. It is impossible to be happy in
this life if enmities are cherished, and anger is allowed to
domineer over our reason. The noblest talents, and the
possession of high birth and great riches, cannot protect
from constant agitation and anxiety the heart of that man
who has delivered himself up to the vices of passion and
hatred.

Anger, uncontrolled, inflicts on its victim continual pun-
ishment. Farewell to peace, farewell to repose, for him
who isso weak as to yield to this passion! A word irritates,
a joke exasperates, the slightest offence maddens him.
His countenance is the picture—the faithful mirror of his
inmost soul; his looks betray the torments of his mind:
and the calm spectator acknowledges that the miseries