our own fault, 150. Mix with the reproof a little praise, 151. If reproved, do not retort on your monitor, 152. Reprove only on weighty occasions, 152. Avoid a fault-finding, captious habit, 153. Reproof is not offensive, when kindly administered, 154. Reprove with caution and moderation, 155. Care should be used to leave with the reproof a salutary impression, 156. THAT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO LIVE PLEASURABLY ACCORDING TO THE DOCTRINE OF EPICURUS. By William Baxter, Gent. Four interlocutors discourse respecting this doctrine, 157-203. What had been said by a favorer of Epicurus, 157, 158. What the Epicurean doctrine is, 159. It recognizes no pleasure but that which is derived from the senses, 160. Objections to this doctrine, 160, _et seq._ Pains, as well as pleasures, enter through the senses, and these are keenly felt, 161. Bodily pleasure is feeble and soon over, 161. The remembrance of past pleasure only stimulates desire for more, 163; and this produces a restless habit, 164. No man can safely count on a continuance of what he now enjoys, 165. Hence there must be constant disquiet, 166. A wicked course contributes nothing to assurance of continual enjoyment, 166. Our very bodily constitution places us in constant peril, 167. To escape evil, the Epicureans say, is the supreme good; but this is simply impossible, 167. If it were possible, it would not raise us above the brutes, 168, 169. Freedom from bodily pain is a trivial affair, 169. The Epicurean philosophy rejects the idea of God and of future retribution; this costs effort; the brutes who never had this idea have advantage over the followers of Epicurus, 170. Intellectual enjoyments greatly superior to sensual pleasures, 171. There is great enjoyment in knowledge, 171. An acquaintance with works of genius affords great pleasure, 172. The mathematics afford unspeakable delight, 173. Instances of this in the cases of Eudoxus, Pythagoras, Archimedes, and others, 174. Such pleasures are far superior and more intense than sensual enjoyments, 174. The Epicurean philosophy eschews these higher and purer delights, 175; and in old age it has nothing left, 176. Epicurus disallows music, 177, 178. He would deprive the mind of its own proper good, and drag it down to the level of the body, 179. The highest good consists in action, 180; especially beneficent action, 180, 181. The pleasures recognized by Epicureans are base and ignoble, 182. They make the stomach the centre, 183. A noble nature despises such pleasures, 184, 185. Great and generous actions are never forgotten, 186; but the memory of sensual gratification is transient, 186. A good reputation affords high satisfaction, 187. This cannot be enjoyed by idle and debauched persons, 188. The Epicureans leave us no hope from God, 189. The fear and worship of God, even when joined with superstition, keep down wickedness and