ABSTRACT
The experience of ages has now developed truths which demonstrate, That all men have been forced by the circumstances which have surrounded them from birth to become mere irrational and localized animals, and of course to pursue measures destructive alike of their own happiness and of the happiness of human nature. The pain which the development of this all-important truth must create will be transient and pass away without real injury to any one; while the substantial benefits which it will produce will be perpetually experienced by the whole of human nature through all succeeding generations. There is no knowledge except this which can make human nature truly benevolent and kind to the whole of the species, and, with the certainty of a mathematical demonstration, render all men charitable, in the most enlarged and best sense of the term.
