LORD KENYON. 



nature, I think myself entitled to say a few 

 words upon his acting so differently at different 

 times, in circumstances apparently the same. 



Travellers inform us, that many of the in- 

 habitants of the isthmus, which connects the 

 two great continents of America, labour under 

 a most strange depravation of sight. When 

 the sun has arisen above the horizon, and has 

 enabled other men by its light to pursue their 

 ordinary occupations, these people become blind, 

 and retire into caverns and dark woods, there to 

 pass the day in quiet and repose. But, as soon 

 as night has descended upon the earth, and the 

 face of nature is to other eyes covered with 

 darkness, their sight is restored, and they then 

 come forth from their hiding-places, to exercise 

 the labours, and enjoy the pleasures of life. 

 I know not whether a similar infirmity has hi- 

 therto been observed in the mental perceptions 

 of man ; if it has not, I announce the existence 

 of an undescribed disease, and produce the con* 

 duct of Dr. Burges in proof of my discovery. 

 This gentleman, some years ago, saw so clearly 

 the propriety of carrying into execution the 

 by-law of the college, for admitting licentiates 

 to examination, that he proposed Dr. James 

 Sims, as a candidate under it. To the other 

 fellows, however, the propriety of the measure 

 was then involved in so great darkness, that no 



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