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tie development of the mental powers , because they enhance the knowledge and excite the will ; but the mischief is , that when these powers are developed , the employment of them in any way conducive to the benefit of the individual is precarious and protracted in proportion probably to their
importance ( producing a collision with established interests and a " stir " in the regular market ); and certainly in proportion to thitr originality . Si ^ iTti ^ maa Brown s tarts the query , whether the greatest man has ever been known ? To pursue any of the queries of that most subtle and recondite thinker would soon lead us far away into the : fi ^ Jipae mysteries of all things ; jve are , nevertheless , of opinion that the number of men of the
finest powers who tyave "died out , " leaving no trace behind tpat tney ever existed , exceeds that of all the recognized worthies who have ^ dorped the world . Judging by the circumstances of pain , difficulty , danger , or disaster , literally and pf < py < Brbiaily attending the lives o ? nearly every one of those who have appeared , it seems almost wonderful that the
comparatively small number should be as large as it is . The old 'fjsaw * ' expressing surprise that children should escape the usual course of accidents , so as ever to " grow up" applies with far greater force to the above individuals . The main ca ^^ e of undeserved oblivion , is for the most part attributable to want of fortitude in those among them who have possessed
mere bread , and want of feeling as of knowledge in the world and all its social arrangements . But we are going over our olcj ground , and must come to particulars . Richard Ay ton was born in 1786 : he received a good classical education $ he was a man of genius , and a . man . of industry . Iff was * ' intended" fyy his father for tlie bar , but not being intended for it by his nature , his industry changed into jcUeand
jjglfg . He took to ^ shing boat-sailing . Finding lie coi ^ ld riffi continue to live in thi p way , even if he had wished , Tjg appepted a situation—call it € i cell / ' or " bird-cage ' '—in a publjc-oifice , and drudged early and late for a trivial salary till there was no enduring it any longer . Most luckily Ijg canae into possession of an equally small income , but found i | pot sufficient to keep soul and bqdy together ; ap ^ iljW % P * may stand in proof of the attenuation of said salary , for besides
bejjig of abstemious habits , his bodily frame needed but little % immt ifr N Jwpg naturally the thinnest man ' twill * mihm } 1 $ ^ fth * t people $ nrnG $ r # und to } pp ] k # ^ r h ' w m hf $ mf& ^ Iqng tJi Q ptf eefa and fBithep by vpprds pr lpojts mfflmVi ^* ^ wwpM . k * ^ fi PFfad- ipv . imfif ;) M mm g ^ ) p w ^ 3 ^»!^ . » wj » ft m mw $ mm mms ® mmm wm » Aw Mm * * .: » .- w * tm hw . Jbftww m * m $
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S 22 Retrospect }^ Glances .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1837, page 322, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1832/page/4/
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