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(2)

I But men labor under two
great mistakes.

1. They act as if the chief object
of living were to gain earthly posses-
-sions – the appliances wealth & station.

2. They labor under the impression
that the chief good consists in
things external to the mind, in
the surroundings of life.

That men so act is evident.

(a) See it in the way in which pa-
-rents educate their children
The plans they lay for them.
The ideas they instil [instill].
The conduct they approve ~