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physical Instructions to avail himsrlf of physical aids and advantages; to act on mat fer to overcome rivers, ramparts, mountains, and human muscles; and these are not the highest objects Ofmind, nor do they demand intelligence of the highest order; and accord ingIy nothing is more common than to find men, eminent in this department, who are al- most wholly wanting in the nobleSt energies of the sOnl-in imagination and in taste, tn the capacity Uf enjoying works of genius, in large views of human nature, in the moral sciences, in the application of analysis and generaliza- ton to the human mind and to society ,and in original conceptions on the great subjects which have absorbed the most glorious un- derstandings. The office of great General does not differ widely from that of great mechanician, whose business it is to frame new constructions of physical forces, to adapt them to new circumstances, and to remove new obstructions. Acc rdingly, great Gene rals, away from the camp, are commonly no greater men than the mechanician taken from his workshop. In conversation they are often dull. Works of profound thinking on gener- al and great topics, they cannot comprehend The conqueror of Napoleon. the hero of Waterloo, undoubtedly possesses great mili- tary talents; but we have never heard of his eloquence in the Senate, or of his sagacity in the cabinet; and we venture to say that he will leave the world without adding one new thought on the great themes on which the genius of philosophy and legislation has medi- tated for ages. We will not go down to such men as Nelson, man great on the deck, but debased by gross vices, and who never pre- tended to enlargement of intellect. To in- stitute comparison in point of talent and genius between such men and Milton, Bacon, and Shakespeare, IS almost an insult on these ilustrious names. Who can think of these truly great intelligencies; of the range of their minds through heaven and earth; of their deep intuition into the soul of their new and glowing combinations of thought; of the energy with which they grasped and sub jected to their main purpose the infinite ma terials of illustration which nature and life af- ford; who can think of the forms of trans cendant beauty and grandeur which they created, or which were rather emanations of their own minds; of the calm wisdom and impetuous imagination which they Onjoned: of the dominion which they have exerted over SO many generations, and which time only extends and makes sure ofthe voice of power, in which, though dead, they still speak to nations. and awaken intellect, sensibil!ty, and genius, in both hemispheres; who can think of such men, and not feel the im- mense inferiority of the most gifted war rior, whose clements of thought are physical forces and physlcal obstructiOns. and whose employment is the combination of the lowest class of objects on which powerful mind gan be employed"