144 EULOGY ON THOMAS YOUNG. 



sonal acquaintance wrth the writer in the Edinburgh Review, and thus 

 all charge of ingratitude must fall to the ground. But could you not, 

 some might perhaps say, have suppressed entirely, when your joaper was 

 going to the press, all that related to so unfortunate a controversy '? I 

 could have done so, and in fact the idea had occurred to me; but I soou 

 renounced it. I know too well the elevated feelings of my illustrious 

 friend to fear that he will take ofiense at ray frankness in regard to 

 a question on which I have profound conviction that the great extent ot 

 his genius has not preserved him from error. The homage which I 

 render to the noble character of Lord Brougham, in now publishing this 

 passage of the eloge of Young without any modification, is, in my mind, 

 sufficiently significant to render it needless to add a word more. 



