Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1881 — A Moral Agent. [ARTICLE]

A Moral Agent.

That virtue gives happiness we all know ; but if it be true that happiness contributes to virtue, the principle furnishes us with some sort of excuse for the errors and excesses of able young men, at the bottom of life, fretting with impatience under their obscurity, and hatching a thousand chimeras of being neglected and overlooked by the world. The natural cure for these errors is the sunshine of prosperity; as they get happier they get better, and learn, from the respect which they receive from others, to respect themselves. “ When ever,” says Mr. Lancaster, “ I met with a boy particularly mischievous, I made him a monitor; I never knew this to fail. ” The cause for the promotion, and the kind of encouragement it must occasion, I must confess, appear rather singular, -but of the effect I have no sort of doubt. —Sidney Smith. Ask your druggist about Kidney-Wort. He will tell you it always succeeds.