Why are we so restless and dissatisfied in the present, even though all of earthly good surrounds us, and ever looking far away into the uncertain future for the good that never comes, or that loses its brightest charms in possession ?" "Because," said the old man, speaking slowly, and with emphasis, "we are mere self-seekers." Mr.Markland had bent toward him, eager for the answer; but the words fell coldly, and with scarce a ray of intelligence in them, on his ears.

He sighed faintly and leaned back in his seat, while a look of disappointment shadowed his countenance.
"Can you understand," said Mr.Allison, "the proposition that man, aggregated, as well as in the individual, is in the human form ?" Markland gazed inquiringly into the questioner's face.

"In the human form as to uses ?" said Mr.Allison.

"How as to uses ?" "Aggregate men into larger or smaller bodies, and, in the attainment of ends proposed, you will find some directing, as the head, and some executing, as the hands." "True." "Society, then, is only a man in a larger form.

Now, there are voluntary, as well as involuntary associations; the voluntary, such as, from certain ends, individuals form one with another; the involuntary, that of the common society in which we live.