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ESSAY OX INTELLECTUAL VIGOUR.
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES ^ N 6 . XXIII .
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* ' When theoretical knowledge and practical skill are happily combined in the same person , the intellectual power of man appears in its full perfection . "— -Dugald There fs no daii bf subjects 1 * 0 knowledge ^ k ^ tridre requires accuracy of definition than what includes ethical and intellectual philosophy ; while there are perhaps none , in which definition becomes so difficult ana hazardous . When , for examr ^ e , $£ ^ to describe , to explain , to modify , than to make a formal statement or enunciation . * If strength o / miW be considered in a moral and religious view , it belongs to numbers who otherwise possess no claim to the distinction . The sincere and practical believer in a future life v he who habitually thinks and feels and speaks and acts fr 6 in a reference of his thoughts , his emotions , his words and conduct , to ; thisf ' Ijlelieiv ha& ^ l&r ^ r co ^| nrehension o ^ soul than the mere man of the world , however robust in his faculties , or eminent
by his scientific and literary attainments . It is not of that sort of mental vigour—the best ,-though not the rarest—that I shall now tyeat .. My remarks and my illustrations will be limited to strength , as it regards the memory , the judgment , the imagination , both separately and in their mutual union . At the same time , there is so far a connexion of man ' s intellectual with his moral character , that we perceive his mental powers to be affected by his moral habits , and the influence to be , in some degree , reciprocal . Proofs of the connexion will be brought forward in this essay . Nor will they be
foreign to its leading object . If we investigate the nature of strength of mind , we shall be led , almost unavoidably , to take some of our ideas of it from strength of body . The analogy is not fanciful . Strength * power , vigour , are words that respectively , aik ^ in the mselves , convey the same thought , whether they be used as to what is corporeal or . what is intellectual . The only difference in these two cases seems to be that strength , when predicated of the body , is a term
* Strength of character must be distinguished from strength of mind , some portion of j ^ Mfl ^ W ^ late Dr . Aiku / a admiraWf . Liters to . Wft ^ o ^ VQl . I . BtfeJir , / > >*
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ESSAY OX INTELLECTUAL VIGOUR .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1828, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2566/page/1/
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