94 . LECTURE II. 



and feelings, that habits of thinking and 

 acting are acquired and established. Yet 

 such reflections and associations are pro- 

 duced and regulated by the actions of our 

 own minds ; and it is therefore evident, of 

 whatever materials Nature may have made 

 us, she has at least given us great powers 

 of formino- and fashioning ourselves. Had 

 the dispositions and powers of our minds 

 been similar, human life would have been 

 dull and monotonous. Their variety ena- 

 bles us by education to attain different 

 kinds and degrees of excellence, and to be 

 useful to one another. 



The very supposition of the organs which 

 are said to form the distinctive characters 

 of the human race, appears to me extremely 

 ingenious. Every one knows that some in- 

 dividuals are more prone to the accurate no- 

 tation of facts ; others to their comparison, 

 and to forming judgments from analogy ; 

 others to the investigation of causes ; and 

 others to those sportive combinations of si- 

 milar and dissimilar things productive of wit 

 and humour ; which facts are attributed to 



