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SOME REMARKS 
ON THE 
NATURE OF GENIUS. 
BY THE REV. JOHN JAMES TAYLER, A. B. 
One of the Secretaries of the Society. 
(Read October 31st, 1823.) 
O Lacrymarum Fons, tenero sacros 
Ducentium ortus ex animo; quater 
Felix! in imo qui scatentem 
Pectore te, pia Ny mpha, sensit. 
Alcaic Fragment of Gray. 
Turre are few questions, on which the 
love of paradox has not Jed ingenious men-to 
start opinions different from those which are 
usually entertained. Some accordingly have - 
undertaken to deny the existence of any ori- 
ginal difference in the faculties of the human 
mind; and have ascribed the endless varieties 
of character and’ gradations of talent ob- 
servable amongst men, to the diversified 
influence and excitement of education and 
cireumstances. ‘To this view of the subject, 
the general persuasion of mankind, which.is 
certainly corroborated by obvious appear- 
