apt to lose their force, when opposed by appetite and pleasure. "It is a hard and difficult task," as Cato observes, "to undertake to dispute with men's stomachs, which have no ears;" but—
"Ita fit, ratio præsit, appetitus obtemperet."
A time will doubtless come, though we may not live to witness it, when man will become more rational, and when his inquiry will be, "What is truth?"—not, "What suits my perverted appetites?"—for truth is the road to all excellence: all its ends must be good; and all its effects on man must be pure pleasure and real happiness. "Time is the cradle of knowledge. Time will wear out the old clothing of thought, when reason and common sense will come to be the fashion." All truths—whether of a physical, moral, or religious nature—must harmonize; because they all flow from the same universal Source of Good; and must terminate in producing the greatest amount of happiness of which the nature of man is susceptible.
