1^ LECTURE I. 



day entirely inattentive to surrounding 

 objects. 



That Mr. Hunter was also a man of con- 

 stant and deep reflection, that he possessed 

 this enviable power of mind, so essential 

 to the perfection of the intellectual charac- 

 ter, is to me sufficiently apparent ; for I 

 know of no opinion of his that was lightly 

 or loosely formed, or that was not logically 

 and cautiously deduced from the facts be- 

 fore him ; and though from the subsequent 

 increase of knowledge, the validity of some 

 of his opinions may now be doubted, yet 

 most of them have from the same cause 

 become more firmly established. With all 

 his genius, knowledge, and reflection, Mr. 

 Hunter was not, however, a brilliant cha- 

 racter amongst us. He had not the happy 

 talent of displaying the stores of his mind, 

 nor of communicating to others the same 

 perception of the importance of his facts 

 and opinions as he himself entertained. 

 Perhaps it may have arisen from my at- 

 tending more to his facts and opinions than 

 to his mode of explaining them, that I have 



