OR, THE MARCH OF INTELLECT. THE CONCLUSION OF MODERN ACCOMPLISHMENTS. BY MISS CATHERINE SINCLAIR, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, BART. Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, SECOND EDITION. EDINBURGH: WILLIAM WHYTE AND CO., BOOKSELLERS TO HER MAJESTY ; LONGMAN, REES, AND CO.; HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.; J. DUNCAN, MDCCCXXXVII. ENGLISH OXFORD LIBRARY PREFACE. AN attempt is made in this volume to contrast the happiness offered to us by our Maker with the happiness which we invent for ourselves to exemplify a wide difference between the "living fountain and the broken cistern." In our own experience, we find that the one resembles the purity and clearness of the early dawn, which grows brighter and brighter till the perfect day, while the other may be compared to an evening. twilight, beginning in still gaudier hues, but growing gradually darker, till it settles into the gloom of night. While thus representing two opposite states of enjoyment, which might justly be called a parallel, since they are lines which can never be made to meet, no hesitation has been felt in representing worldly as well as spiritual enjoyments in the brightest colours, because the superiority of the latter are more conspicuous in proportion to the accuracy with which both can be depicted. Those, indeed, who have experienced the blessedness of Christian peace, require no demonstration of its unrivalled excellence; but the case is otherwise with those who are ignorant of the Gospel, and |