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and upon the method by which thought is expressed, after a 

 very few struggles, gave way to the more active faculties 

 devoted to physical nature. 



Some have objected to such characters by saying that they 

 result from a want of full development of the faculties, from 

 a one-sidedness of the mind ; but what man in this short life 

 can cultivate one faculty highly without depriving the others 

 of nutriment, or cultivate every faculty equally without stinting 

 them all? 



In Dalton we have found a mind which has shewn itself, 

 as well in its operations as in its results, to be of the very 

 highest scientific class. 



