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Influence

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
June
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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There is nothing in the universe tha J stands alone - nothingsolitary. Noatoir je of matter, no drop of water, no vesiclc ](] of air, or ray of light, exists in a state oí 3„ isolalion. Every tliing belongs to some :e system of society, of which it is a compom nent and necessary part. Just so it is in :c the moral world. No man stands alone ie -no high angel, nor child. All the be1 ngs "lessening down from Infinite Per■ fection to the brink of dreary nothing," ' belong to a syslem of mutual dependenp cies. All and each constitute and enjoy s a part of the world's sum of happiness. No ono liveth to himself. The destiny d of the moral universe is afTected by his ,f existence and influence which must be j feil in the great brotherhood of mankind. -' Should the hand say to the foot, "I have no need of thee," the world would stand ? still. No humon being con come into the world without increasing or diminishing s the sum total of happinesá, hot only of the , present, but of evcry subscquent age of humanity. No one can detach hiniself from this connoction. There is no se: qucstered spot in the universe, no dark niche along the disc of non-existonce, to which he can retreat from his relations to others, where he can withdraw ihe influence of his existencO upon the moral destiny of the world. Every where his presenceor absence will be feit. Every where he will have companions, who will be better or worse for his influence.- Ckr. Citizen. Five hundred men are engaged in the business connected with the working of the stone quarries at Quincy, Mass.- The cpjarries are twelve in number; the largest amount of stone got out from any ' one (jnarry was 20,000 tonsa year. One quarry is worked by and for the laborers j thcmselvcs, who lensed it on thgir own J account.

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News