no doubt, have blandly told him, in such language as
he has used to our author, that he had no “right to
toss out his fantastical crudities before the public,
and give himself the airs of a legislator over the
material world.” In short, our reviewer is a man of
talent, not of genius, nor, as a consequence, can he
either tolerate or understand that higher state of
‘mind, which with instinctive boldness, at once takes
possession of a truth beyond the limits of his own
mental ken, He never would have thought of
cutting the Gordian knot; but would have set
himself down, with praiseworthy earnestness, to
untie it; and Alexander would have conquered Asia
‘before he had completed the task. i