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of' it as is necessary for dotng any one important thing" well and thoroughly . We are grateful , then , to Jtinius Redivivus , that he ha& put the mark of common parentage upon his mind's offspring , —that he has not cut up his literary identity into separate and small fragments , each of which might have belonged to an entire being so
far inferior to what ( it is impossible not to believe ) he is . For if any writings of the present age bespeak a strdng , healthy , and well-proportioned mental fame , his do . If he had told us his name , his birth , parentage , station , profession , all these particulars the knowledge of which is usually termed knowledge of the man , that were probably nothing : bf all that in any way concerns us , his moral and intellectual being , we have assurance sufficient . With all the freshness of youthful feelings , he unites an extent
of practical experience and knowledge of life , impossible in one very young , and affording the happiest earnest that the fountains of emdtion at which others drink and pass on , will flow beside bis path , refreshing and inspiring the whole ^ of his earthly journey . One-sided men commonly enforce their partial views with a vehemence and an air of strong conviction which persons of more comprehensive minds are often without , being unable to throw their whole souls into a part only of the truth which lies before them : but the advantage for which others are indebted to their
narrowness , Junius Redivivus derives from the excitability and ardour of his temperament : the idea or feeling required by the immediate purpose , seems to possess him as entirely as if that were the only purpose he had in life : but the other idea or feeling which ought to accompany and qualify the first , is there in
reality , though appearing not , unless called for : look somewhere else and you will find the remainder of the truth supplied , and what seemed partial in the feeling , corrected by tokens that all other feelings proper to the occasion , are equally strong and equally habitual . There is an evidence of hearty conviction and
energetic will in all the writings of this author which compels the persuasion that he would be as ready to act upon all he professes as to profess it : being , as we { nay gather from the particulars he lets fall of his own life , inured , to self-reliance , and noty unaccustomed to difficulties or even to emergencies . He writes as one in whom there still survived something of the spirit of the ancient heroes , along with the superior humanity and ^ the superior " refinement of modern times . . > C
It is seldom , indeed , that a wise man ' s praise can t > e unqualified ; yet of the man Junius Redivivus , as shown in his writings , there is little or nothing to be said on the disparaging side ; of the works themselves somewhat . He is n $ i a , great writer : will he ever be ? Possibly not : y « t only perhajpp i * f » use he does not desire it : he has never shown the capacitfcjijjit then he ham never shown the wish , to produce a finished PflOTMpapce . , I * tfus to be ¦
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Writings of Junius Redivivus . 246
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 265, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/49/
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