Part 87 (2/2)

1204

As no man is born without faults, the best is he who has the fewest

1205

Burns, the poet, when in Edinburgh one day, recognized an old farmer friend, and courteously saluted him, and crossed the street to have a chat; soentle rebuke, to which he replied:--”It was not the old great-coat, the scone bonnet, that I spoke to, but the man that was in them”

1206

MAN

Man has been thrown naked into the world, feeble, incapable of flying like the bird, running like the stag, or creeping like the serpent; without means of defense, in the s; without means to brave the inclemency of the seasons, in the midst of animals protected by fleece, by scales, by furs; without shelter, when all others have their den, their hole, their shell; without arainst hi and the lion retires before his eyes; he has despoiled the bear of his skin, and of it ; he has plucked the horn fro-cup; then he has dug even into the bowels of the earth, to seek there the instruth; frole, who, seeing him at first in his weakness and nakedness, prepares to seize him as his prey, struck in mid-air, falls dead at his feet, only to furnish a feather to adorn his head A animals, is there one, who under such conditions could have preserved life? Let us for a moment separate the workman from his work, God from nature Nature has done all for this insect,--of which they had been discoursing,--nothing for ence rather than of ift, this ray of light from the divine fire, created hiht ht be constrained to find in hireatness

--_By X B Saintine, in Picciola; or, The Prison Flower_

1207

Wherever a oes with him

1208

Our acts make or mar us,--we are the children of our own deeds

--_Victor Hugo_

1209

MAN--assUMPTIONS OF

O, but man, proud norant of what he's most assured

--_Shakespeare_

1210

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds, I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit

1211

MAN