The Charms of Life (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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As it is the most obvious will of God, which nature teaches man, that the human being live happily during the tenor of time, allotted to it in its condition, as assigned in nature, so ought happiness to be depicted to show that not only is it found in the code to the laws which govern nature, but on account of the reason of man, which, when attained to its fullest strength, as arousing faith in a supreme Spiritual power over nature, is by the aid of faith, fully realized by man.

In order to illustrate the above as lucidly as possible, be cause there are occasionally men to be found, who appear not to experience happiness, nor behold any charm in nature, con sequently in life, I have sketched the life of man as two-fold, viz: the life of nature inclusive of man with reason without faith as dead, and vice versa with faith as life.

Furthermore, that faith in God affords to man a hold so strong, that it appears as if it were beyond the control of reason, which has the effect that adversity mirrors itself at Once as naturally and entirely consequent upon man's own manifold errors only. This conviction leading man towards a valuation of the instant of life, and admonished by the senses, as he unrelentingly is, to labor man readily finds the charms of life by the diversion of labor.

A life among the people, being the ground assigned to labor by civilization, man in adversity constantly notices that there are always fellowmen, who are more unfavorably circumstanced, than he is, which contemplation as realizing fortitude, leads a disconsolate mind from the darkness of despair into the light of the charms of life until natural death.

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