The Florist's Guide - Containing Practical Directions for the Cultivation #246696

Man being thus dignified, and endowed with understand ing, reason, and moral freedom, is exalted far above all other creatures of the earth. How important, then, that he should maintain his station in society as becomes a rational and intelligent being, instead of sinking himself, as too many do, below the meanest of the mean, by spending his time in dissipation and vice.