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ing, a it were, in review, a series of 

 facts or propositions, and steadily con- 

 templating them so as to arrange, assort, 

 or compare them till we form some de- 

 duction respecting them. This power 

 seems to belong exclusively to man, and 

 is the basis of his reasoning faculty. 

 That mind is the strongest which can 

 contemplate the greatest number of 'facts 

 or propositions with accuracy ; and his 

 judgments are generally the most correct, 

 who omits to review none of the facts 

 belonging to the subject under his con- 

 sideratiom It was this power of mind that 

 so eminently distinguished Newton from 

 Othef men. It was this power that en- 

 abled him to arrange the whole of a 

 treatise in his thoughts, before he com- 

 mitted a single idea to paper. In the 

 exercise of this power, he was known 

 occasionally to have passed a night or day 

 entirely inattentive, to surrounding objects; 



