_Lalage_ (_after a pause_.) And--he--shall--die!----alas! Castiglione die? Who spoke the words? Where am I?--what was it he said?--Politian! Thou _art_ not gone--thou art not _gone_, Politian! I _feel_ thou art not gone--yet dare not look, Lest I behold thee not; thou _couldst_ not go With those words upon thy lips--O, speak to me! And let me hear thy voice--one word--one word, To say thou art not gone,--one little sentence, To say how thou dost scorn--how thou dost hate My womanly weakness. Ha! ha! thou _art_ not gone-- O speak to me! I _knew_ thou wouldst not go! I knew thou wouldst not, couldst not, durst not go. Villain, thou _art_ not gone--thou mockest me! And thus I clutch thee--thus!----He is gone, he is gone-- Gone--gone. Where am I?----'tis well--'tis very well! So that the blade be keen--the blow be sure, 'Tis well, 'tis very well--alas! alas! (_exit_.) LOGIC. Among ridiculous conceits may be selected _par excellence_, the thought of a celebrated Abbé--"that the heart of man being triangular, and the world spherical in form, it was evident that all worldly greatness could not fill the heart of man." The same person concluded, "that since among the Hebrews the same word expresses death and life, (a point only making the difference,) it was therefore plain that there was little difference between life and death." The chief objection to this is, that _no_ one Hebrew word signifies life and death. {17} AN ADDRESS ON EDUCATION, AS CONNECTED WITH THE PERMANENCE OF OUR REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS. Delivered before the Institute of Education of Hampden Sidney College, at its Anniversary Meeting, September the 24th, 1835, on the invitation of that body,--by Lucian Minor, Esq. of Louisa. [_Published by request of the Institute_.] Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Institute: I am to offer you, and this large assembly, some thoughts upon EDUCATION, _as a means of preserving the Republican Institutions of our country_. The sentiment of the Roman Senate, who, upon their general's return with the shattered remains of a great army from an almost annihilating defeat, thanked and applauded him for _not despairing of the Republic_, has, in later times, been moulded into an apothegm of political morality; and few sayings, of equal dignity, are now more hackneyed, than that "A good citizen will _never_ despair of the commonwealth." I shall hope to escape the anathema, and the charge of disloyalty to our popular institutions, implied in the terms of this apothegm, if I doubt, somewhat, its unqualified truth; when you consider how frequently omens of ruin, overclouding the sky of our country, have constrained the most unquestionable republican patriot's heart to quiver with alarm, if not to sink in despair.