Show works OF FICTION constant fa familiarity ety even with such works of fiction as are not exceptional in themselves bays hannah more afore relaxes the mind which needs hardening dissolves the heart which wants fortifying stirs the imagination 1 which wants quieting irritates the passions which want calming and above all dis inclines and disqualifies for active virtue virtues and for spiritual thoy thol all these books may maya not be witched yet the habitual indulgence in in such reading Is a silent mining mischief though there is no act and no moment in which any open assault on the mind is is made yet the constant habit babit performs the work of a mental atrophy aph it t produces all the symptoms of decay and anat the b danger is not less for being more gradual and therefore lesa less suspected |