850 THOMAS YOUNG. 
NOTE BY THE AUTHOR. 
THE Journals having done me the honour to mention some-~ 
times the numerous testimonies of good will and friendship 
which Lord Brougham had shown me in 1834, as well in Scot- 
land as in Paris, a word or two of explanation here seem indis- 
pensable. The éloge of Dr. Young was read at a public sitting 
of the Academy of Sciences, Nov. 26, 1832. At this period 
I had never had any personal acquaintance with 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 paper 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 soon renounced it. I know too well the elevated feel- 
ings of my illustrious friend to fear that he will take offence at 
my frankness in regard to a question on which I have a pro- 
found conviction that the great extent of his genius has not 
preserved him from error. The hqmage which I render to the 
noble character of Lord Brougham in now publishing this pas- 
sage of the éloge of Young without any modification, is, in my 
mind, sufficiently significant to render it needless to add a word 
more. 
