Consider next how enormous must be the mental capacity God in His goodness has bestowed on our race, when we remember what immense numbers of our ablest men have risen from the masses. Samuel Smiles was fond of pointing this out. Barbers have done well. Jeremy Taylor, the divine, Ark-wright of the spinning-jenny, and Turner the painter, were barbers. Burns was a labourer; Bunyan was a tinker; Ben Jenson a stonemason; Lincoln a_ farmer's boy; Livingstone, a mill-hand; Johnson, President of the United States, was a tailor; Lord Tenterden, once Lord Chancellor, started as a barber, A similar tale is told of each of them, Lord Tenterden usei-to take his sons down to Canterbury to see the shop where he shaved for a penny. "And when Johnson was twitted on having been a tailor, he said, he had always been noted for making a good fit, and he hoped to do so as President. Ability has been lavished on man in any quantity, if that, as some people think, would have kept him right, to say noth. ing of the capable ninds_ we know nothing of, "the mute inglorious Miltons."—Consider now a view of the subject, that is not often considered. Indeed, I have never seen it put.
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