The histories of individuals and of nations would not be what they are, had a truly Christian spirit inspired and animated men in their intercourse with their fellows, and with the world and its circumstances. Enmity and friend ship, self interest and idolatry have colored every record of the progress of minds and governments, so that the lineaments of Truth have been deprived of those exact proportions' which inflexible Justice alone has the power to unfold. To err in judgment in one of two extremes is natural - and he only who has the rare power of watching his own proclivity to praise on the one hand, or to censure on the other, can hope to thread his way with safety between the mental Scylla and Charybdis.

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