Views of the preceding Note applied to Religion Liberality and Illiberality defined Universal correspondences in the Plan of Providence Are there grounds for believing that the whole of the Civilized World is about to undergo a great and last- ing Change-or is at present in a state of Transition Institutions of different degrees of absolute excellence suited to different States of Society Organic Changes in Society-difference between these Effect of Times of Excitement on the Manners and Morals Notions that have been adopted in different Ages respect- Future Progress of Knowledge among Mankind ERRATA. Page 360, line 24, for knowledge read science. 378, 6, for known read thrown. 477,- 4, for arrived at read aimed at. Page GENERAL VIEWS, &c. THE OLD HOUSE. "There where some church-yard trees the place disclose, “It is an old house this," said I to myself, as I was busied one fresh morning, towards the end of the year, in trimming and fastening the rose plants, with which I had decked its grey and shattered walls," It is an old house now,-and cannot be expected to stand for many years-but it has had a prouder destiny than hundreds of more magnificent mansions-for it has given birth to the wise, the accomplished, and the good-it has been coeval with a system of opinions and of institutions that are now fast passing away, and which it seems unwilling to survive-and, viewing it therefore as a memorial of the times that are gone-of the good, and the wise, and the accomplished whom it has sheltered-and of the institutions and |
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