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    interrogatories ! My thoughts are bent on peace with Dr . Jones : between whom and myself there are many points of analogy or affinity ; which ought to be as so many bonds of union and sweet concord .

    1 . We have both good Celtic blood in our veins , though mine be not quite so pure as the Doctor ' s ; for I rather think I have a mixture of the Goth or Vandal in me . 2 We are both t etymologists

    . grea , though non passibus cequis : and if the Doctor will let me be . Parvus lulus he shall be Magnus iGneas . 3 . If Analogy be the goddess of the Doctor ' s idolatry—the Ariadne of his affections—Logic is my Minerva . I mean no offence to the modern

    Theseus , whom I would not have to desert , Ariadne after being so long wedded to her ; but I would have him be on his guard with her , for she is a dangerous Siren : and though my learned friend may think he has her all to himself , she is an old coquette

    of many lovers . I kept company with her some time myself , ( when I was comparatively young and amorous , ) but I found her as ' false as fair ; for she abused my confidence , and practised so much deception upon me , that I was at last obliged to come to

    the resolution of never seeing her more , except in the presence of Minerva . Ariadne is a good handmaid , but a bad mistress ; she is a dangerous counsellor , but a very trust-worthy , useful servant , if we keep her in her proper place , and at a proper distance . Let me beseech Dr . Jones

    neither to toy with nor to yield to the seductive charms of Ariadne . 4 . Both Dr . Jones and myself are confessedly men of genius : our adversaries will admit that we have ingenuity and originality if we have nothing else . Nay , ( as Dr . Jones

    properly notices in his own case , ) they will admit us to have too much of these qualities , and will turn them to our disadvantage , us rendering us wholly incapable of sound sense and sober judgment . But the truth is , the mere memoritcr men are as

    incapable of appreciating our excellences as old JVJrs . Cnunpe was of comprehending Putty Frajnkland . They vv ul stare at us as if we were perfect wduies , and shrug their shoulders u » d arch their brows and shake their

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    heads and look such unutterable things * or pronounce us wrong-headed . But if the Doctor will take iny advice , instead of complaining , he will get up , as Patty was to do with the cocks , and whip them all round , and make them quiet . He has been very

    ill-used already ; but if he should ever , from over-exertion for the benefit of postery , suffer the affliction of brain fever , even the leading Unitarian brethren , who have a monopoly of candour and charity as well as of rationality , will set him down as stark mad ever after .

    5 . But both Dr . Jones and myself are not only men of genius—we are men of mettle too ; for we dare to publish all our discoveries and inventions in the very teeth of

    common-place etiquette ; though criticism be as abundant as quackery and imposture— Critics as numerous as mites and as terrible as hornets ; though Reviewers be as active as spies in France aud as insolent as Bashaws

    in Turkey . 6 . If Dr . Jones has been a persecuted author , so have I ; and perhaps I have had much the worst of it : at any rate I have not thriven so well upon persecution as my neighbour by analogy . I am not conscious of coveting ray neighbour ' s house or my

    neighbour ' s wife , or any thing that is my neighbour ' s ; but I could have no objection to live in Great Coram Street , or to reside at Brighton . Many good pounds might I have had in the Savings-Bank but for bad speculations in authorship : anM I have not , like Dr . Jones , the

    consolation of hope and the support of faith in the generation to come . Posterity is not only a distant paymaster , ( and I fear post-obit bonds made payable by him would not be negotiable , ) but a very uncertain

    patron ; and perhaps he will be as ungrateful and ungenerous and goodfor-nothing as his father . A living Bishop , whose soul follows hard after preferment , no doubt for the sake of usefulness , told Mr . B y , that he must look to the other world for his

    reward ; and the good man seemed , in relating" the circumstance , as glad of the consolation as Dr . Jones is pleased with the anticipated acclamation of posterity . 1 thought the Bishop ' s doctrine cold comfort to an

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    Mr . Gilohrisfs Parallel between Himself and Dr . Jones . € 67

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1826, page 667, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2554/page/31/