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DKATII S DOINGS.

and since it is a fact, that man loves and desiresonly good, and fears only ill, —so long as life is agood he loves it, and when it becomes an evil heloathes it. The sum of our aim then is, that asevil is but the consequence of ill action, and wedread not Death nor desire Life for themselves,we have only to act well, that we may live with-out fear, and die without despair.

These impressions are accordingly strongest inearly life, and, when our course is right, theyappear to decline as we advance, and to becomeultimately feeble and extinct; so that by degrees,beautifully suited to a virtuous progress, Heavendisengages us altogether from the love of Life andthe fear of Death.

Having disposed of the great Transmuter andhis elder children, let us turn our eye, ere weclose, to the more recent offspring of the Plutonicfamily, many of whom are no less worthy of ce-lebrity than their elder brethren, and of whom,particularly deserving of record, are Goldman,formerly of the King's Mews,— Peter Woulfe,