of a man, that if only his will were commensurate with his knowledge,
he would be a great man. His knowledge is great--his powers are almost
unbounded; he has gained knowledge from nearly every department of
science; but somehow or other--you cannot tell why--there is such an
indecision, such a vacillation about the man, that he scarcely knows
what to do, and, perhaps does nothing in this world. You find it
remarked, respecting another class of men, that their will is strong,
almost unbounded in its strength--they have iron wills, yet there is
something so narrow in their conceptions, something so bounded in
their views, so much of stagnation in their thoughts, so much of
prejudice in all their opinions, that their will is prevented from
being directed to anything in a proper manner. Here is the discord in
human nature. There is a distinction between the will and the
understanding. And sometimes a feeble will goes with a strong
understanding, or a powerful will is found in connection with great
feebleness or ignorance of the understanding.

Let us however, go into this more specially. The first cause of
discord in this threefold state of man is the state in which the body
is the ruler; and this, my Christian brethren, you find most visibly
developed in the uneducated and irreligious poor. I say uneducated and
irreligious, because it is by no means education alone which can
subordinate the flesh to the higher man. The religious uneducated poor
man may be master of his lower passions; but in the uneducated and
irreligious poor man, these show themselves in full force; this
discord--this want of unity--appears, as it were, in a magnified form.
There is a strong man--health bursting, as it were, at every pore,
with an athletic body; but coarse, and rude, and intellectually
weak--almost an animal. When you are regarding the upper classes of
society, you see less distinctly the absence of the spirit, unless,