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23':1 TUF. llrr!.lNG-TlME OF LILt:.
foun(l drinking with the drunken, or breaking
the Sabbath with the ungodly. rrhis is forti.
fying )'ourselvcs internally agaiust external
ftX~.
Let me Ilame anotll('f ad vantng~ in the ncquisition
of knowl~lgc. ltfi18 men for tlje great
dill/a of lift:.
That n cultivated mind gives its possessor
immrn:::c 5u~riorjty over the uncultivfl.ted,
m~ctls 110 proof. Let me ask why ~ome one
iutlividual ill a. town, vilhl.ge, or neighborhoou
ha:$ Euch weight of character and influence?
'\~h)' is he consulted on all import.n,nt oec.'\-
:;:.ions, and put forward in every business that
requires capacity? "\Vhy is he chu.:o;cll as tbe
arbiter of 80 lllany dispute~l the executor of:::.o
man)' wills, the guardian of ~o many orphan
children? Much of this r~pcet may uu paill
hila for the piety, the probit.\" :1l1d the uosu!.
lied integrity of his character; but who does
not know that mere goclllnc.,;;s, separated from
intelligence, never qualifies a man to transact
important hllsincs.::s?
rrhcrc is no n'lLSOIl why even menial occupntiou1:)
should be dil'!!olOCintcdfrom mental im.