is at our doors and in our chambers; yes, in our bodies, and in our minds. The child’s father is very busy, but he is busy in the room where his child is in need; and therefore he is where he is wanted to be. The ordinary talk is of “The operations of Nature.” Pray, Sir, what is Nature? The gentleman who has used the term looks round with surprise. He stutters, and stammers, and says that everybody knows what Nature is. Tell us, then, what it is. “Why,” says he, “it is easy enough, Nature is—; Nature