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final estimate, especially when the two observers are not equal 

 in knowledge and experience. 



The first sentence in the estimate is wonderfully accurate 

 and comprehensive, since it gives in very few words the 

 exact combination of faculties which have been the effec- 

 tive agents in all the work I have done, and which have 

 given me whatever reputation in science, literature, and 

 thought which I possess. It is the result of the organs of 

 comparison, causality, and order, with firmness, acquisitive- 

 ness, concentrativeness, constructiveness, and wonder, all 

 above the average, but none of them excessively developed, 

 combined with a moderate faculty of language, which enables 

 me to express my ideas and conclusions in writing, though 

 but imperfectly in speech. I feel, myself, how curiously and 

 persistently these faculties have acted in various combinations 

 to determine my tastes, disposition, and actions. Thus, my 

 organ of order is large enough to make me ivish to have 

 everything around me in its place, but not sufficient to enable 

 me to keep them so, among the multiplicity of interests and 

 occupations which my more active intellectual faculties lead 

 me to indulge in. 



The next sentence is also fairly accurate, as at school I 

 always found arithmetic easy, but Mr. Hicks did not, perhaps, 

 know that my rather small organ of wit would prevent my 

 ever " excelling " in mathematics. That I am " systematic 

 in my arrangements and plans" is, however, quite correct. 

 My want of self-confidence has already been stated in my 

 own estimate of my character ; and the last sentence is also 

 fairly precise and accurate. 



Among the other organs not referred to in the written 

 character, there are a few worth noting. Inhabitiveness, 

 giving attachment to place, is among my smaller faculties, 

 while Locality, giving power of remembering places and the 

 desire to travel, is noted as being one of the largest. In- 

 dividuality, giving power of remembering names and dates, is 

 rather small, while Time is given as the smallest of all, in 

 both cases strictly corresponding with the amount of each 

 faculty I possess. Again, Veneration is among the smallest 



