the occasion

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the occasion
What is the occasion of this insufferable tediousness, which so many of them find in the pursuits of elementary learning ? How is it that they so often find the form on which they sit, an almost literal rack of torture, and the hours of confinement lengthening out like hours of literal bondage, where the only prospect of happiness is MBT the prospect of release ? Do we talk of men's aversion to religion ? why, here is aversion to knowledge, as strong MBT Shoes and obstinate even as that of hardened vice to religion. What causes it?I repeat Not that nature which is as truly made to love knowledge as the appetite is to love food ; but circumstances have disappointed the natural want, t it is perverted or stupified, MBT Shoes Clearance so that it scarcely appears to belong to the nature of the human being. And just as true is it that circumstances have disappointed the natural want of religion, and perverted or stupified it, t it is hardly recognized as a part of human nature. And men make themselves worldlings in desire, or brutes in indutgence ; make themselves contented creatures of sense and of an outward world, almost without all conscious ness that they were made for any thing better ! O ! misguided nature of man ! know thyself; know thy powers, thy wants, thy destiny ; and rise to virtue, to piety, to the heaven of purity, and the life that is immortal ; for nothing, nothing short of these can satisfy thee.Alas! I know not when k shall rise; I know not when the mighty cloud of errors, beneath which men are walking, shall be rolled away. I say not thisI pray it may be believedwith any sectarian feeling ; I care nothing for sects, but as they care for this sacred interest of the soul. And under a different form of speculative belief, I as truly felt, that dark errors were brooding over the human souj, as I feel it now.