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Have and tyrant. There are many examples 
of the contrary. 
The late King of Pruflia, without any ad- 
vantage of education, was a great General, 
a consummate Politician, an acute Philofo- 
pher, a good Poet and a polite Scholar, even 
without any knowledge of the dead langua- 
ges. In like manner, our immortal Shake- 
fpear, without education, was doubtlefs the 
firft of all dramatic poets. It appears there- 
fore, that the characters of men are not in- 
variably caft in the mould of education, 
and that even a total want of it cannot pre- 
vent fuperior intellects from rifmg above 
the common level of mankind. Of this 
truth there cannot be a more fingular ex- 
ample than the prefent father of the Medi- 
cal faculty in the Univerfity of Edinburgh. 
Dr. Cullen I have always regarded as one of 
thofe rare beings, whofe intuitive rays of 
understanding penetrate the clouds of time- 
fanclioned erroneous opinions, even without 
the labour of formal invefligation. 
But thefe are fingular examples. Man- 
kind, in general, are the creatures of tuition 
and habit; we may therefore fairly conclude, 
that a mixture of fervility and imperiouf- 
nefs will generally mark the character of 
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