Suppose a proprietor, in any country or at any age, receives into his employment an individual, who thereafter resides and has a family upon his estate: upon the death of the individual, will his heirs accrue to any of the rights of the proprietor, other than those granted, or those consequent to their own or their ancestor’s condition, or those that may accrue by operation of law? Where is the political enactment, the moral precept, the Divine command, teaching an adverse doctrine? Before we close our view of Dr. Channing’s second proposition, we design to notice his use of the word “nature.” He says, that man has rights, gifts of God, inseparable from human “nature.” We confess that we are somewhat at a loss to determine the precise idea the doctor affixes to this term. The phrase “human nature” is in most frequent use through these volumes. But in vol. i. page 74, he says—“Great powers, even in their perversion, attest a _glorious nature_.” Page 77: “The infinite materials of illustration which nature and life afford.” Page 82: “To regard despotism as a law of _nature_.” Page 84: “His superiority to _nature_, as well as to human opposition.” Page 95: “We will inquire into the nature and fitness of the measures.” Page 98: “The first object in education _naturally_ was to fit him for the field.” Page 110: “From the principles of our _nature_.” Page 111: “_Nature_ and the human will were to bend to his power.” _Idem_: “He wanted the sentiment of a common _nature_ with his fellow-beings.” Page 112: “With powers which might have made him a glorious representative and minister of the beneficent Divinity, and with _natural_ sensibilities.” Page 119: “Traces out the general and all-comprehending laws of _nature_.” Page 143: “A power which robs men of the free use of their _nature_,” &c. Page 146: “Its efficiency resembles that of darkness and cold in the _natural_ world.” Page 184: “Whose writings seem to be _natural_ breathings of the soul.” Page 189: “Language like this has led men to very injurious modes of regarding themselves, and their own _nature_.” _Idem_: “A man when told perpetually to crucify _himself_, is apt to include under this word his whole _nature_.” _Idem_: “Men err in nothing more than in disparaging and wronging their own _nature_.” _Idem_: “If we first regard man’s highest _nature_.” Page 190: “We believe that the human mind is akin to that intellectual energy, which gave birth to _nature_.” _Idem_: “Taking human _nature_ as consisting of a body as well as mind, as including animal desire,” &c. _Idem_: “We believe that he in whom the physical _nature_ is unfolded.” Page 191: “But excess is not essential to self-regard, and this principle of our _nature_ is the last which could be spared.” Page 192: “It is the great appointed trial of our moral _nature_.” Page 193: “Our _nature_ has other elements or constituents, and vastly higher ones.” _Idem_: “For truth, which is its object, is of