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children, and Home Tooke reduces all words to these two classes. 

 The French lanu-uage ha's no analogy, no comparison, no classi- 

 lication ; Frenchmen's organ of individuality is most developed ; 

 they always begin a discourse \vith the fact, and never witii the 

 cause; they sav this or that happened without ever saying because 

 it was so or so ; there is no connection or chain of analogy and 

 causation in their discourses or minds. All the faculties act in 

 conjunction and not alone. This appears even in their abuses. 

 He who has covetiveness with veneration never steals in a church, 

 never commits sacrilege ; no, he observes, " it is not good to 

 steal in a church ;" another who has covetiveness with benevo- 

 lence says, " it does harm to no one," and steals there. We 

 may alao distinguish the chief of a banditti by his pride and firm- 

 ness, which he must possess in a high degree. But no faculty 

 can be judged alone. It is extremely difficult to judge ; all men 

 hitherto judge others according to their own associations ; in 

 fact they judge themselves in others. Even God is made, accord- 

 ing to their own feelings, a \varrior or a peace-maker, I'his ap- 

 pears even in the Scriptures ; St. Peter's God is fear, St. John's 

 love. But we must henceforward judge men by the predominance 

 or remissness of tlie superior foculties, whether tlie faculties pe- 

 culiar to the animal or those peculiar to the man have the as- 

 cendency. Hence we have a measure, a standard of judging- 

 Faculties may be excited by circumstances, and some are taught 

 music as a trade, and not bv innate genius: jet Handel would have 

 composed had none existed before him, and Zerah Colburn cal- 

 culates by some process not yet taught by men. The world or 

 sphere of action is in relation to the tjuantity of active faculties ; 

 he who has most active faculties has the greatest world. Indul- 

 gence must be extended to all persons for their contrariety of 

 opinions ; they cannot help it. The doctrine of association of 

 ideas has occasioned mauy erroneous conclusions. As evil is not 

 a substance but an action, so likewise an association takes place, 

 but it is not a thing ; one propensity excites another, one senti- 

 ment anotlier, and one intellectual faculty anotlicr; seeing aa 

 object excites the faculty of language ; places excite the organ 

 of space, &;c. Hence the basis of all mnemonics. Colour is always 

 present to Frenclimen. — Characters : — a modest man has benevo- 

 lence, cautiousness, and little self-love ; a candid one, all the su- 

 perior feelings, and a roundish outline; a serious, grave with firm- 

 ness ; a " touchy character" has much self-love and approba- 

 tion ; one wlio never bo^vs, self-love, destructiveness, firmness ; 

 one who never pardons, vindictivcness, distrustfulncss. Sec. In 

 all languages tliere are more names for bad than good characters 

 in men. — Sympathy and antipathy; every faculty desires to be 

 eutisfied, and so far as it is satisfied we like or dii;like others. 



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