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senses dull and indifferent to present objects. But 

 still, if his former study has been true to nature, 

 nature will not desert him in the hour of affliction, 

 or even at the moment of dissolution. Even then, 

 the Eagle and the Tarmigan shall fetch him to the 

 mountain, and he shall climb with boundling heart 

 and sinewed limbs, and the healthful breeze shall 

 play around him, and he shall look down upon a 

 hundred valleys, scan all their inhabitants, and taste 

 all their freshness, till the grief of the body become 

 clean forgotten in the enjoyment of the mind. Or, 

 if other scenes please him more, the warbler shall 

 lead him to the groves and bowery glades of the 

 forest, and the green leaves shall play in the scented 

 breeze, and the flowers shall blow, and the song of 

 nature shall be sweet and varied, and he shall anew 

 be " the happy boy" even in the extremity of 

 decrepitude. Or the sea-bird shall conduct him to 

 the cliff, against whose cavemed base the waves 

 of ten thousand seas have thundered in vain ; and 

 he shall look upon the majesty of the waters; and 

 the ship shall appear, and he shall mentally get on 

 board, girdle the world, and visit every scene and 

 tribe of men under the sun." Introduction, p. 22. 



We cannot take leave of this excellent volume 

 without noticing an extraordinary misconception 

 into which the reviewer in the Analyst has fallen 

 concerning the meaning of the author: — " We 

 absolutely disagree," says the reviewer, " with any 

 attempt to make the classification depend on mere 



