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nary activi ty of the Whole faculty, amounting to a peculiarstrength of imagination and intuitive perception; by Viriue ofwhich no sooner do they set the animal miud in motion On any subjeci, than they excite the rationality of the correspondingrationes mitid, they arrange their philosophical topius into a suit te form, and afterWards en gage in thought tili they see clearly Whether their opinions are consonant With the decisions os asound judgment; When, is any element Os an Obscure character embarrasses the subjeci, by a happy gist os nature they separate
the obscure hom the clear, and in iis place insert some Other element more conformabie to the generat idea, So as to malle
ali the paris aptly cohere. With a natural facili ty they distributo their thoughis into classes, and separate miXed topics into appropriate divisions; and shilsully si Ordinate series, thus perspicuousty divided, One under the Other, that is, the particular under the generat, and the generat under the universat. Τhus are they never overWhelmed by the multiplicity of things, but continuatly enlightened more and more, and, bytho holp of arrangement and generat notions, recali to miΠd, Whenever they please, suci, paris of the subjeci as liud bocomuessaced froin their notice, and uti id such as are complicated Or
Those Who aro born With this felicity of talent, and after-Ward procoed tu duo Order to iis development, the more pro-λundly they penetrate into the depilis os science, the less dothey trusi to their imagination, and the more cautious are theynot to extend their reasoning beyond the strici limit justified by facts : or is they indulge in conjecture at ali, they treat it as
duly to support them. Even is they retain them in their memory, they do not admit them as litilis in any chain of rensoning ; butWhile conducting their argument, in a manner banish themfrom thought, and keep the attention fixed oti data aud factsalone. The fictilious depresses them, the obscure palus them; but they are exhilarated by the truth, and in the preseneo ofeverything that is clear, they t00 are clear and Serene. When,
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RRer a long course of reasoning, they mine a discovery of the truth, StraightWay there is a certain cheering liglit, and joyses confirmatory brighiness, that plays around the sphere os theirmiud; and a Lind of mysterious radiation,-I knOW ΠOt Whenceit procoeds,-fhat daris through some sacred temple in thobrain. Τhus a sori os rational instinet displays itself, and in amantior gives notice that the foui is called into a state os more in v d communion, and has returned at that moment into thegoiden age of iis intellectual persections. The mind that has known this plensure, for no destre attaches to the unknown,) is carried aWay Wholly in pursuit of it; and in the Lindling flamo os iis Iove despises in comparison, as eXternat pastimes, alimerely corporeat plensures; and although it recogniges them asmenus sor exciting the animal mind and the puror blood, it on
In the promotion of his Hory they place the end and object of
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os thoirs arise hom the faci, that they have Dot learni tO mea-sure their genius by the rule Os nature. 21. As the natural gist We have mentioned, or the faculty by Whicli the understanding sees acutely and distinctly into tho series of things, is to be perfected by the use of means; SO evenu here this faculty is by nature excellent, there are many thingsthat retard iis ad vanoement, diminis i iis energy, and enseebleiis e ris. Such, sor instance, are the destres of the animalmiud and the pleasures of the body, Whicli render the rationalmiud, When too compliant to them, unable any longer to pur8ue iis high investigations; for then it is as it u ere in bonds, and sorced to go Whereuer lust Will have it. Τhis faculty is imputredund destroyed also by the cares and anxieties arising Dom domestic circumstances and the consideration Of ridly prospectS. For these determine the mitid to loW and OutWard things, and never resso it to the high and the inWard. Nothing Superinduces more datan ess On the human miud, than the interferetice of iis oWn sancied providelice in matters that properly belongto tho Divine Ρrovidenee.
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ceptions, utitit his elated thoughis have subsided to their properlevet. There are man DV SVs Seneca, Who might have attainen to Wis dom, had they not sancied they had attainod it al- ready.Vφ The Muses love a tranquil miud, and there is nothingbut humility, a contempt of self and a simple love os truth, thalcan prevent Or remedy the eviis We have described. But hos osten does a mau labor in vain to divest himself of his OWn nature. HOW Osten, When ignorant Or utimindlal of the love that creeps upon him, Will he botray a partiality tollimself and the of spring of his own genius. Is an author there re destres that his studius Ahould give birili to anythingos sterting value, let him be ad vised, When he has committod topaper What he considers to be os particular merit und is sonu os frequently perusin g, to lay it aside sor aWhile, and after thel apse of monilis to return to ii as to a something he had largot-ten, and as the production not of himself but of s me other Writer. Let him repent this practice three or laur times in the
Reprehendite, quod non Μulta dies et multa litura coercuit, atque Perfectum decies non castigavit ad unguem.' 'De Arte Poeticu, I. 292-294.
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regard to the lines Which had received the latest polisti from his haniis, tot him be assured that he has made some litile progress
23. I thinii that I shali not at ali detraci Dom the literature
of the present day, is I aver With many, that the ancients Surpassed us in Wisdom, in the stri and persection os distinguishingthings, and in the StireWdness of their conjectures respectingthe occult. For With no instruction save their oWn, they laid the Dundations Os numerous aris and sciences upon Whicli their posterity afterWards bulli; nny, DOm the refources of their OWngenius and without being under any intellectual obligations tothe past, they raised the superstructure to no inconsiderable height. of tho truth of this laci, We have evidelice in their Writings, Whicli, more lasting than brass, have been hauded doWn uninjured through an intervat Of thousanus Os years evento this very day. Τhe instructive lessons they have taught, and the opinions they have pronounced, We, their posterity and children, ure still WOnt to respeci, to receive, and to apply to the practical purposes of life . It is Scarcely necessary to mention suci, names as Aristolle, Hippocrates, Galen, Archimedes, Euclid, and OtherS. 24. On the other haud, I thiuli I shali not detraci Dom thoprai se due to ancient literature, is again With many Ι aver, that the late and present ages are distinguished ab ove those of the ancients for the nids thoy have assordest in carrying to a sarther extent the developments of genius, or lar accumulating eXperimental facis; thus for supplying posteri ty, of Whom We havethu brightest hopes, Willi materials for a Wisdom that is yet tocome. Each there re has occupied iis peculiar province; the ancients excelling in genius; the moderiis abounding in materials that may afford support to future genius. 25. Thus does it foem to be the Will of that Providenco whorules nil earthly assiars, that the ono state should be succeede by the other; that the parents should instruct the childreri; and that the ancients should incite their posterity to the acquisition of tho experimental knowledge by Whicli their contemplative sciences may be confirmest: and in like manner that Wo of the present age should stimulate the generations that sollowus, io Work again and again in the mines of the fame eXperi-
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Same nature. He SVs, that upon a close examination os the globules, aster Separating one froin the other, and even dividing Some of them,
they presented the appearance of being very slightly colored. Milli heseund in like manner to consist of globules sonting in a limpid humor,
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m0re fluid : Whenoe he infers, that death may somelimes proceed fromthe hardness of these globules. Phil. Trans., n. IJ7, p. 380, 38 l.)When he examinod blood possessing much crystalline liqu0r, and placedin one of his iubes, and carried it into the open air at a time Whenthere Was a pretiy strong Wind, he observed that the globules Were agi taled, like the air itself, by concussions and mutuat motionS; and heobSerVed moreovor another Lind of motion, in that each globule gyrated round iis OWn axis. Ibid., 11. 106, p. 129, J30.) He likeWise observed that the transparent liquor in Whicli the red globules of the blood sWim, isseis consisted of smali globules, which were sewer bes ore evaporationthan aster. In the fame liquor he also distinguished certain bodies of a quadrangular figure, Which he considered to be saline particles. Ibid., n. li 7, p. 380.) But the globules of the blood, he says, are Specificatly heavier than the crystalline liquor, sor the moment they eScape froni the vetiis, they by litile and litile subside toWard the bottom; audbeing made up of sost, fluid corpuscules, and lying one UpOn another, they unite together, and by their close conjunction, the blood that is under the sursace alters iis color, and becomes dark red, or blackisti. The red globules, he says, are 25, 000 times smaller than a grain Ossand. Ibid., n. 106, p. 122.) He observed that in a tadpole the particles of bl00d were flat and ovat, and that Sometimes, by reason of the tenuity of an artery, they Were made to assume a tapering figure, and were SO minute, that a hundred thousand myriad of them could note lues in bulli a large grain os sand. Epist. 65, Areana Naturiae Detecta, p. l6l, I 62.)30. LANCISI. toroscopical experiments demonstrate, that theblood consisis principalty of tWo paris, namely, Of Serum Whicli ismostly limpid in healthy subjecis, and of extremely minute globuleSfrom Whicli the generat mass of this fluid derives iis reduess, Whetherit be in circulation, or intercepted in any part of the SyStem . . . . LeeU-Wenhoeli observes, that in fishes he 1 und that the particles Whicli occasioned the reduess of the bl od were plano-ovat; that in land animais they Were round, So far as he could judge froni the cases that cameunder his own inspection. But that in human blood these globules Were Sost, and each of them formed by the union and conjunction ofSiX Smaller globules. To these he attributos the reduess of the blood, and considers that it is deoper and more intense the more numerouSthey are, and the more agglutinated the one to the other. With re- Spect to my OWn observations Ι Would remarii, that I have made them illi the greatest care, and with the assistance also of the illustrious Blanchinus. There are four principat things that we noticed in dropsos blood recently draWn, When received on a crystal plate and Submitted