Youth

.—It is much to b lamented that more attention is not paid to the education of yuoth. Those who in the wane of life are counting on the joys of hereafter, should consider it one of the first of duties to warn the rising generation against their thouthless prodigality of time, that greatest of earthly treasures. If half that wide lapse of time, which at once consumes itself and the health of the body in excesses were spent in the improvement of the mind, what a wonderful change, what a revolution would be produced! kings would not then tyrannize over their subjects, and b idolized for it; nor would priests plunge the bulk of mankind in darkness and ignorance, and be revered for it! Our universities are nothing but monkeries, where real knowledge is trodden under the hoofs of an assemblage of ignorant, superstitious, bigoted, intolerant friats, and where the partal knowledge of words is preferred to the knowledge of thigns, and of men and manners! ’Tis ignorance that is the tyrant! ’Tis ignorance that is the priest! ’Tis ignorance that lights the torch of intolerance, that fans the flame of the faggot! because it is swinish, sottish, ignorance that suffers it!