Can he behold the increase of intemperance and crime in all the ramifications of society, without feeling the influence of those sacred ties which bind him to that community of which he is a member; and without resolving to use all diligence to arrest their further extension, so far as his influence and example may reach? Can he listen with unconcern to the cries of oppressed humanity, and view without emotion, those objects of wretchedness which almost daily present themselves in the most affecting shapes, and forget the intimate relationship, and the reciprocity of duties which exist between every branch of the human family, and the justice and force of the claims of distress upon every generous and sympathetic heart? He can no where in the moral or physical economy of the world, find an example of existences which are independent of all connection with the present, past, and future. The universe has been with great propriety compared to a complex machine, "a stupendous whole," every part of which has its relative and proper function to perform, and discord and confusion are the consequence of each irregularity of movement. From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth breaks the chain alike. It should be the business of _every one_ to cultivate such sentiments as those which are contained in the extract below, given from a work[2] which the celebrated DUGALD STEWART declared when presenting a copy of it to one of our countrymen, now a resident of Philadelphia, to be the finest piece of composition in the English language: "_That to feel much for others, and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions in which consists their whole grace and propriety._" Even a BACHELOR, actuated by principles of this character, might emerge into the character of a worthy, useful, and amiable man! ☞ [2] "Theory of Moral Sentiments," by ADAM SMITH, author of the "Wealth of Nations." Extracts from C. E.'s Common-Place Book. _Cheap food for horses, from M'Arthur's Financial Facts, 8vo. p. 258._ The author lived in London and kept three horses which he fed as follows.