LABOUR. 
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and impels him to act contrary to the laws of 
his nature. We must admire the goodness 
which did not leave it at our own option, but 
forced upon us by the stern compulsion of phy 
sical wants to act in accordance with this great 
law of our being, to comply naturally and easily 
with the inexorable necessity, to taste the plea 
sure which the exercise of our faculties confers, 
to apply this only means for our improvement ; 
and our working classes, who are so immediately 
and peremptorily under this compulsion, should 
ponder well the advantages which it secures to 
them. 
All that has been said of the benefits of 
labour refers to it ^ when temperate and well 
directed. If there is decreed unto us the 
inexorable law of labour, most ample provi 
sion has been made by our Creator, the whole 
economy of nature has been adapted to secure 
to us seasonable rest. Compound man, pos 
sessed of many faculties, each and all ready for 
use, requiring for the formation of the complete 
man that they shall be used, is not exhausted 
with the exhaustion of any one of his divers 
powers, but is prepared, and even disposed, to 
exercise the others, and is thus beneficently