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only with right feelings. The holy will may ultimately reach to the correction of these products of the violent, the unsubmissive, the selfish will. The malevolent feelings are simply the evil outflow of an evil purpose.

The fourth class of feelings find expression toward others in their failures. They are those of contempt, pity compassion. Contempt is the direct product of a selfish spirit toward weakness. Pity involves sympathy, and leads to consideration in the mishaps of others. It is a feeling that independent spirits accept with reluctance, as it so often bears with it something of the taint of contempt. In compassion the mind goes freely forth and shares with others the burdens of failure. A contemptuous frame of mind, as a personal characteristic, reduces all the incentives to generous action. It is a painful emotion, except so far as, inflaming self-conceit, it finds in the failure of others the food of pride. A low, disparaging estimate of the powers of 'men, giving birth to contempt spiced with misanthropy, will, unless relieved by a marked exception in our own favor, depress action and enjoyment. Each newly discovered case of weakness increases the bitterness of the heart. This feeling slowly over-clouds the sky, and leaves the soul in a chill, benumbing, disheartening atmosphere, rendering it incapable of pleasure, and indisposing it to the effort by which the spell might be cast off. The contemptuous man takes home as guests, sarcasm, satire, unbelief, aversion. He abides in their companionship, lies down and rises with them, and suffers their corrosive breath to tarnish the brightness of every object. Contempt is the rust of the soul, which eats it up with increasing pain. Nothing can be intrinsically more diverse, or more diverse in their effects, than that intellectual contempt which feeds on the weakness of men, and that moral sentiment which scorns a mean action. The one is the recoil of the soul upward: