Memory and intellectual improvement applied to self-education and juvenile instruction . sakes, butfor the good of our fellow man. In this republican land, thetalents of all her sons become public property ; so that thegifted have no right to deprive their fellow citizens of thebenefits of all their capabilities; and to do so is the worst spe-cies of robbery, because a robbery of the most valuable of allpossessions—that of mental wealth. But, above all, let usbear in mind perpetually our accountability to the Author ofthese transcendent endowments for their cultivation and rightexercise. Shall
Memory and intellectual improvement applied to self-education and juvenile instruction . sakes, butfor the good of our fellow man. In this republican land, thetalents of all her sons become public property ; so that thegifted have no right to deprive their fellow citizens of thebenefits of all their capabilities; and to do so is the worst spe-cies of robbery, because a robbery of the most valuable of allpossessions—that of mental wealth. But, above all, let usbear in mind perpetually our accountability to the Author ofthese transcendent endowments for their cultivation and rightexercise. Shall we condemn the Giver by burying the giftin neglect ? Shall we continue to crawl when He has capaci-tated us to fly; yea, and that on the wings even of angels ?Nor soar in this life merely, but to all eternity; for the morewe improve our talents in this life, the more, a hundred fold,will they thereby become augmented against the harvest ofeternity498; but the more our neglect of their cultivation dete-riorate them in this life, the more unfit shall we be for thatwhich is to CLINTON HALL, Nos. 129 & 131 NASSAU STREET, NEW-YORK.
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