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discern various kinds of talents and intel- 

 lectual powers before it can be supposed 

 that thej have been produced by education. 

 These natural differences of character and 

 talent also manifest themselves under the 

 most inauspicious circumstances : a man 

 may be educated as a robber, and pursue 

 his profession with so much zeal and energy 

 that he may acquire its highest honours; 

 he may be the captain of banditti : yet, if 

 nature has given him just and honourable 

 feelings, he will sometimes violate the re- 

 gulations of the gang, and commit acts of 

 clemency and propriety which many of his 

 comrades may censure, and call pusillani- 

 mous, yet none can wholly disapprove. Do 

 we not also know that great talents have 

 induced self-education, and that plough- 

 bpys have become eminent as philosophers 

 and poets ? 



- The representation which Gall and 

 Spurzheim have given, places the senti- 



