noctial heat more discouraging to
_them_ than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We
know that whilst _some_ of _them_ draw the line and strike
the harpoon on the coast of Africa, _others_ run the
longitude and pursue _their_ gigantic game along the coast
of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by _their_ fisheries; no
climate that is not witness to _their_ toils. Neither the
perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the
dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever
carried _this_ most perilous mode of hardy industry to the
extent to which _it_ has been pushed by _this_ recent
people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the
gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When
I contemplate _these_ things; when I know that the colonies
in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and
that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the
constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that,
through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has
been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I
reflect upon _these_ effects, when I see how profitable
_they_ have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink,
and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt
and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something
to the spirit of liberty."

Of Conjunctions.

Another group of words which give coherence to a paragraph is
conjunctions. They indicate the relations between sentences, and they
point the direction of the new sentence. The common relations between
sentences indicated by conjunctions are coordinative, subordinative,
adversative, concessive, and illative. Each young writer has usually
but one word, at the most two words, in his vocabulary to express each
of these relations. He knows _and, but, if, although,_ and
_therefore._ Each person should learn from a grammar the whole list,
for no class of words indicates clear thinking so unmistakably as
conjunctions.

Two words of advice should be given regarding the use of conjunctions.
If the thought all bends one way, if this direction is perfectly
clear, there is no need of conjunctions. It is when the course of the
discussion is tortuous, when the road is not direct, when the reader
may lose the way without these guides, that conjunctions should be
used. On the other