11 'Q26 ON HIGH PROFESSION Objects of' the first importance cannot be exclusively pursued even by higher capacities than those we are considering. It is particularly necessary, therefore, for these last to supply their leisure with occupations which will furnish useful in-- formation, and matter ofpleasing comma. nication. For if the most elevated minds require the relief of change, much more cloes the ordinary and uncultivated intel. lea, It has but few images, which are soon exhausted, and must sink into weariness if it be not replenished by new ones:-Reading, such as we presume to recommend, might prevent the vacant mind from brooding over mysteries, which it has pleased the God ofall wisdom, as well as all goodness, to hide from more enlightened minds than those we are contemplating. The want of something better to do, the want of resources of a higher order, between the duties of the highest, reduces many persons to the most trifling ways of getting rid of time. They:who allow of no intermediate reach
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