are animals that have less [fewer] senses than man, and there may be those that have more. If we knew what those were, we should not, perhaps, ascribe so much mystery to instinct-should not exhibit it in such a light as to confound the wisdom of the wise."

THE MIND-A SUBLIME STUDY.

[From Dr. Thomas Brown's “ Philosophy of the Human Mind.”]

"The philosophy of mind furnishes in itself the sublimest of all speculations, because it is the philosophy of the sublimest of all created things. There is but one object greater than the soul, and that one is its Creator.' When we consider the powers of his mind, even without reference to the wonders which he has produced on earth, what room does man afford for astonishment and admiration! His senses-his memory-his reasonthe past-the present-the future-the whole universe, and, if the universe have any limits, even more than the whole universe, comprised in a single thought; and amid all these changes of feelings that succeed each other, in rapid and endless variety, a permanent and (unchangeable duration, compared with which the duration of external things is but the existence of a moment.

'O what a patrimony this! a being

Of such inherent strength and majesty,

Not worlds possess'd can raise it; worlds destroyed
Not injure which holds on its glorious course,
When thine, O Nature, ends!'

"Such, in dignity and grandeur, is the mind, considered even abstractedly. But when, instead of considering the mind itself, we look to the wonders which it has performed, the citiesthe cultivated plains, and all the varieties of that splendid scene to which the art of man has transformed the deserts, and forests, and rocks of original nature-when we behold him, not limit. ing the operations of his art to that earth to which he seemed confined, but bursting through the very elements that appeared to encircle him as an insurmountable barrier,-traversing the waves, struggling with the winds, and making their very opposition subservient to his course ;-when we look to the still

greater transformations which he has wrought in the moral scene, and compare, with the miseries of barbarous life, the tranquillity and security of a well-ordered state; when we see, under the influence of legislative wisdom, innumerable multitudes obeying, in opposition to their strongest passions, the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive, and the crimes of a single individual marked and punished, at the distance of half the earth:is it possible for us to observe all these wonders, and yet not feel some curiosity to examine the faculties by which they have been wrought,-some interest in a being so noble, that leads us to speculate on the future wonders which he may perform, and on the final destiny which awaits him?"

THE INTELLECT OF NEWTON.
[From the same.]

"The progress of science is obviously nothing more than a series of individual discoveries, and the number of discoveries varies with the powers of the individual intellect. The same phenomena which were present to the mind of NEWTON, had been present innumerable times before, not to the understandings of philosophers only, but to the very senses of the vulgar. Everything was the same to him and to them, except the observing and reasoning mind. To him alone, however, they suggested those striking analogies, by which, on a comparison of all the known circumstances in both, he ventured to class the force which retains the planets in their or bits, with that which occasions the fall of a pebble to the earth.

'Have ye not listened, while he bound the suns
And planets to their spheres? the unequal task
Of human kind till then. Oft had they roll'd
O'er erring man the year, and oft disgraced
The pride of schools.

He took his ardent flight
Through the blue infinite; and every star
Which the clear concave of a winter's night
Pours on the eye, or astronomic tube,
Far-stretching, snatches from the dark abyss,
Or such as farther in successive skies

To fancy shine alone, at His approach
Blazed into suns, the living centre each
Of an harmonious system ;-all combined,
And ruled unerring by that single power

Which draws the stone projected to the ground.'

"It is recorded of this almost superhuman genius, whose powers and attainments at once make us proud of our common nature, and humble us with our disparity, that in acquiring the elements of geometry, he was able, in a very large proportion of cases, to pass immediately from theorem to theorem, by reading the mere enunciation of each; perceiving, as it were intuitively, that latent evidence, which others are obliged slowly to trace through a long series of propositions. When the same theorem was enunciated, or the same simple phenomena observed, the successions of thought in his mind were thus obviously different from the successions of thought in other minds; but it is easy to conceive the original susceptibilities of all minds, such as exactly to have corresponded with those of the mind of Newton. And if the minds of all men, from the creation of the world, had been similar to the mind of Newton, is it possible to conceive that the state of any science would have been at this moment what it now is, or in any respect similar to what it now is, though the laws which regulate the physical changes in the material universe had continued unaltered, and no change occurred, but in the simple original susceptibilities of the mind itself?"

ON IMMORTALITY.

[From Howe's "Vanity of Man as mortal."]

"Though now we behold a dark cloud of mortality, hanging over the whole human race;-though we see the grave still devouring and still unsatisfied;-though we see that all are successively drawn into it, and puzzle ourselves to assign a reason why such a creature was made a reasonable being, capable of an everlasting duration, to visit the world only, and vanish,-to converse for a short space with objects and affairs so far beneath it, and retir we know not whither; if yet our eye follow him through the dark p th of the regions of death, till at the next appearance

we behold him clothed with immortality, and fitted to an endless state, the wonder is over, and our amazement quickly ceases.”

INFIDELITY.

"In embracing the philosophy which denies all religion, what satisfaction can be found;-what resting place for the mind? To infidel philosophers, it has plainly furnished none; for they have retreated and wandered from one residence to another, and have thus found, that they have discovered no place where they could comfortably and permanently abide. Wretched must be the condition of that mind, which, labouring with intense anxiety to discover a peaceful rest for an unsanctified conscience, and a final home at the close of a weary pilgrimage, finds within the horizon of its view nothing but a structure built of clouds, variable in its form, and shadowy in its substance,—gay, indeed, with a thousand brilliant colours, and romantic with all the fantastical diversities of shape, but bleak, desolate, and incapable of being inhabited.”—Dwight.

Foreign Intelligence.

THE CALCUTTA SAILORS' HOME.

Twelve years ago, there was laid down in Calcutta a systematic plan of operation, in behalf of the maritime population, and an Association formed under the designation of "The Calcutta Seaman's Friend Society," and which has carried on its labours with much successful efficiency. But as the efforts of this Institution had special reference to the moral improvement of the sailor, it was conceived that some other means were necessary to better his physical condition, and that he might not be left to those only whose tender-mercies are cruelty, without a single endeavour to release and rescue him. The idea of a SAILORS' HOME, was therefore entertained by not a few; and in the year 1836, such an establishment was opened for the reception of seamen of all nations. Its effects have been made visible, and the expectations of its friends in most instances realized.

The immediate object of the Establishment is to break in on that system of CRIMPING, which has taken such firm root in every port on the surface of the earth. In Britain the crimps are generally low Jews; but in Calcutta, they are far the most part runaway or discharged soldiers or sailors, low Portuguese, and still lower natives. Lost themselves to all principle and character, they care not to what degradation and misery they reduce the sailor. Their "sole object being plunder, they have recourse to deleterious and drugged liquors, prostitution, violence, and quarrels, which not unfrequently terminate in the worst manner and as their gains are considerable, they are most vigilant in their occupation." They proceed on system; every part of the plan is preconcerted and previously laid, and being bent on their purpose they leave nothing undone to effect it.

Any effort therefore to rescue the sailor from these incarnate demons, to take him from the lowest haunts of vice and crime, to save him from plunder and death, cannot fail to commend itself to every humane and Christian heart, especially when it is remembered, that, inconnexion with this deliverance, there is suitable provision made for the man's health, economy, comfort, and moral interest. And this is the object of a Sailors' Home. It provides for the comfortable and economical board and lodging of its inmates, whether officers or men, the shelter of the destitute, and the succour of the afflicted. It is designed, in every eligible mode, to add to their happiness, and secure for them the most subtantial good.*

These are the objects embraced in the constitution of the Establishment at Calcutta, Whilst it holds out every advantage which can insure health and economy, to those who will avail themselves of its provisions; itat the same time offers a REFUGE for the accommodation of the destitute, though industrious sailor. It has also its REGISTRY, in which are enrolled the names of both captains and men; and from which at any time, and at a

*To the system of CRIMPING we shall refer on some future occasion.