The reason passes, like the heart, through certain epochs and
transitions, but its development is not so often portrayed. Men
seem to have been satisfied with unfolding the passions in their
extremes, their aberration, and their results, without considering
how closely they are bound up with the intellectual constitution of
the individual. Degeneracy in morals roots in a one-sided and
wavering philosophy, doubly dangerous, because it blinds the
beclouded intellect with an appearance of correctness, truth, and
conviction, which places it less under the restraining influence of
man's instinctive moral sense. On the other hand, an enlightened
understanding ennobles the feelings, -the heart must be formed by
the head. The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase
of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion
of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to
make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are
willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed
then. Under these circumstances it may not be unprofitable to call
attention to certain periods of the awakening and progress of the
reason, to place in their proper light certain truths and errors,
closely connected with morals, and calculated to be a source of
happiness or misery, and, at all events, to point out the hidden
shoals on which the reason of man has so often suffered shipwreck.
Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into
extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even
of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil
wisdom
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