STUDY VIII, 175 



Would we wifh, on the contrary, that GOD 

 fliould manifefl; himfelf in a manner more adapted 

 to his own nature, by the direâ: and immediate 

 communication of his intelligence, to the exclufion 

 of every intervenient mean ? 



Archimedes, who had a mind capable of fuch in- 

 tenfe application, as not to be diflurbed from his 

 train of thought, by the fack of Syracufe, in which 

 he loft his life, went almoft diftraded, from the 

 fimple perception of a geometrical truth, of which 

 he fuddenly caught a glimpfe. He was pondering, 

 while in the bath, the means of difcoverins: the 

 quantity of alloy which a rafcally goldfmith had 

 mixed in Hiero's golden crown ; and having found 

 it, from the analogy of the different weight of his 

 own body, when in the water, and out of it, he 

 fprung from the bath, naked as he was, and ran 

 hke a madman through the ftreets of Syracufe, 

 calling out, / have found it ! I have found it ! 



When fome ftriking truth, or fome affeding 

 fentiment, happens to lay hold of the audience at a 

 theatre, you fee fome melted into tears, others 

 almoft choked withanoppreffed refpiration,, others 

 quite in a tranfport, clapping their hands, and 

 ilamping with their feet; the females in the boxes 

 a6tually fainting away. Were thefe violent agita- 

 tions of fpirit to go on progrefllvely but for a few 



m>inutes 



