FRIDAY, M0rch 21, 1928.
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midst of these institutions, it is not wonderful that
Mr.. Z. i'll a short time qualified himself tor his new
employment. They who consider his previous at
tanments, will instantly perceive that mind like
his, had already ample stores of learning. lie un-
derstood the rights and duties of man. tie did not
60 there to get instruction on the nature oil crimes ana
offences. In these, and other fundamental qualfl-
cations of an enlarged soul, he had long before ac-
quired his stock of intelligence. What he wanted
was technical acquaintance with rules, forms, and
precedents, and with the modes of applying them
to the that offered in practice. His mind poss-
essed the versatility and strength adequate to these
subjects 1t was by some Of his friends, consider
ed subject of regret, that he changed his profess
ion. They said that judicial studies circumscrbed
the faculties, and narrowed the mind. The obser-
vation, if it is intended particularly for the pursuit
of the law, is unjust. 1t applies, with as much per-
| tinency, to any other employment which occupies
the chief entire attention man who IS lncess-
emily watching the auctions the stocks, or wholly
engaged in trade or manufacturers, may as well be
charged with limiting his intellectual faculties. The
fact, however, is that lawyers when they have dl-
rected their researches to exraproesslona objects,
have attained high, and even pre-eminent distinction
Who, for instance. will refuse to William Cowper,
| the praise of consummate poet Will any one de-
ny, that Barren Masseres of the Exchequer, was a
distinguished mathematician? Sir Francis Bacon


is the wonder of his species, for the reform he made
in reasoning and philosophising in substituting in.
duction for syogism: in introducing the certainty
of nature, into the place where the deusivc subtle


ties of art prevailed: in rejecting idle hypothesis,


to make for logical theory and, in short, BY


introducing the sure posteriori method of reasoning


instead of the fallacious priori mode. Sir William


Jones, prodigy of genius and talent. is an example
of the most diversified attainments. He was capa


bic of examining all manner Of subjects, whethe
+ ancient or modern oriental or occidental scientific


or literary. You scarcely know which to extol


most, the solidity of his prose. or the sweetness


his poetry. Hebrew. with its dialects of Samaritan


and ChaIdaic, were not enough FOR him. He wa
profound in Arabic, Persian, and Sanscrit. Consl
dering that he did not reach much more than mid
die age, you may we'll marvel that he achieved S
much and performed so we'll" IN. York Mornin


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