CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI. AND VII. INDEX FOR 1852_VOL. VI & VII. | Death is silent. David and Jona- tlan, 412-517 American Scenery, Headley, Page 44 Daily Routine in the Life of Louis A Thrilling Sketch, B. E. Teitt, 56 XIV. A Grand Archæological Discovery, 58 Encounter with an Ice-herg, Alvars Happy. 91 Einployment, Elitorial Miscellania, 38-45 122 | Elitorial Mi cellania, 149-190-286-433 480-528 134 | Eve that bennieth. Extracts, 105-127 139 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Art Trens'ires in the Tiber, 159 | Early Musical Education in Germany, 252 A Life Picture, 03 / External objuets, Embalming, 385-415 Extravag 'nt use of Language, 468 A Few Thoughts-A Revery in Flowers of the heart, 335 Act Fell pour part, 30-99 364 | Great objects obtained by little things, 118 374-321 Gilboa, Geological Agencies, 151-227 An Ernption of the Great Geiser, 420 Geology. Genius, Talent and Enter- 431 261-295 553 493-499 507 60 Hope on, Hope ever. Health, 236-238 Bops in City and Country, 24 510 | Injuvlicious Education. It is well, 4-590 553 | I mean to be a man. Influence, 163-177 557 | It is not all of life to live, Correct Thyself. Come this way 125-140 Intellect. I do so love pictures, 430-437 California. Chinese in California, 328-331 Instinctive Knowledge of Insects, 502 522 10-27 X 450 Jeptha's Daughter, James Montgome- Changes of Time. Curiosities of Chat about the Seasons. 221 307 Destiny of the Anglo-Saxon Rare, 71 | Larning to spell, Lizzie in the Mill. Detraction. Dr. Clark and his wife, 155-185 | Diligence in doi g good. Dreams, 269-317 ) Library of Congress, Lif..'s Decline, 431-475 515 435 215 236 255 558 | The Young Man's Counsellor, Meteorology, Minisiering Angels, 18-33/ The Wife of Byron, Ministering Spirits, 137 Tribute of Madame De Strel, 1o Neckar, 143 The Republicanisni of Literature, 427 | The First Snow on the Catskill, 433-497-537 | The Poetry of Chemistry, 454 ] That Vale in New England, 515 The Bride's Error and Wife's Correction, 129 541 | The Rise of the Papal Power, 537 | The Human Hair Magnified, New Year's night of the unfortunate 44 The Surrender of Hungary, 161 The Mississippi unlike other Rivers, 168 Niagara, Nature's l'eachings, 192-318 | The Secret of Literary Success, 173 Our Brie Bird's second Wife, 350 The decline of Papal Power Practical Wisdom, Phenomena of The Counsel of Woman 102-107 | The Omnipresence of God 266-273 The Late Sledge Expeditions 524 | The music of a peaceful beart Rest at Twilight Hour, 239 The Maine Law–True anecdote of the Remarkable l'oynge in the air, 365 The life of an Editor 386 The Celtic Race, -The Mælstrom 303 20 The Bison, The Husband Present 351-353 Should the Theatre be encouraged, 85 | The relation of Science to Poetry 117) Temperature. The Alpine Horn 409-392 Sick room Musings, 122 | The Printing art. The Climate of 416-417 160 / The Chemistry of Nature and Art. Sketches of Newport, Selections, 299-304 The Rapids of the St. Lawrence 443 Shakspeare, Bunyan and Burns, 308 | True Destination of Philosophy 461 Song of the Icebriate's Bride, 312 The Dream of Columbus 318, There is a Tide in the affairs of men 481 Sectarianism and Practical Religion, 826 The Character of St. Paul. The Shells. Sacredness of Tears, 368-424 Vagaries of the Imagination, Strasbury Cathedral. Shelley, 450-508 William and Mary Howiti 325 Scottish Perseverance. Sympathy, 509-516 Wisdom a necessary adjuvet, &c. 413 541-559-560 Woman's Early Task The Influence o? Christianity on Hu Walks about Liverpool 531 30L Sisera, 426 431 474 MONTHLY LITERARY MISCELLANY. :. VOL. VI. DETROIT, JANUARY 1, 1852. No. I. For the Monthly Literary Miscellany. BY REV. H. D. KITCHEL. The records of History prior to the com- , In all those four thousand years, the docing of Christ, are simply the chronicles of trine was growing up and entrenching itself despotism; and the best method of estimat- in all the thoughts and ways of the world, ing the influence of Christianity on civil that government was a divine gift to a ruling freedom will be by a comparison of the few, for their own behoof; and as to all present with the past. | these teeming millions of mere human creaLook back, then, over the condition of the tures, these were simply so much raw mateancient world. Consider what manner of rial wherewith the kingly few might work policy prevailed in the governments of the out for themselves a name and a glory in the earth. What was the aim of Civil Govern- earth. One after another the great empires ment? What did it accomplish through all of the ancient time realized this theory.-those ages of the world's minority ?-what They had no People. The princely and the did it even aim to accomplish for the People servile were the only classes. The Egypti -for the millions whom it held under its an, the Assyrian, the Persian and the Macesway? In all that tract of ages you search donian-which of these ever estimated the in vain for a single instance, in which that, common sort of man as anything nobler than which is now seen to be the true end of gov- a toiling, fighting, tribute-paying animal ? ernment among men, was recognized and it was only apparently better in Greece, or porsued! The good of the governed, the in the so-styled republican age of Rome; comfort, the elevation, the just rights of for when you penetrate beneath their fair those myriads who stood on the lower levels forms and sounding names, you find almost of humanity-where and when, before the as little of genuine liberty, in the sense of Christian era, were these ever sincerely pro- practical popular freedom, as in the veriest posed as its great end by any ruling power ? despotisms. The Free People of Athens One instance may be named; but it is one was a certain, yery limited aristocracy, not, marked with peculiarities that set it broadly by any means, the mass of the citizens. Cer. eside from the inquiry. I refer to the He- tain select and refined classes had rights and brew Theocracy in which God became him- franchises, but humanity had not yet risen self the Ruler of men. But this exception to stand on its own intrinsic dignity. And stands alone Governments had wholly an- in Rome it was not so well as in more refinother purpose in view than that of the prac-ed and cultivated Greece. tical benefit of the people. It was not even Thas you search the ancient world in discovered as yet, that there was a People vain. Genuine liberty, as a popular attainin the question, having any place or existencement was not yet known. That was a Chrisas a party in the matter of government Stian discovery. The People, as a party to |