ns and Desires, and on Study, we would have everybody to read and
enjoy.

Sedgwick is a different, and, as a whole, an inferior man; but a _man_
every inch of him, and an Englishman too, in his thoughts, and in his
fine mother wit and tongue. He has, in the midst of all his confusion
and passionateness, the true instinct of philosophy--the true venatic
sense of objective truth. We know nothing better in the main, than his
demolition of what is untrue, and his reduction of what is absurd, and
his taking the wind out of what is tympanitic, in the notorious
_Vestiges_; we don't say he always does justice to what is really good
in it; his mission is to execute justice _upon it_, and that he does.
His remarks on Oken and Owen, and his quotations from Dr. Clarke's
admirable paper on the _Development of the Foetus_, in the _Cambridge
Philosophical Transactions_, we would recommend to our medical friends.
The very confusion of Sedgwick is the free outcome of a deep and racy
nature; it puts us in mind of what happened, when an Englishman was
looking with astonishment and disgust at a Scotchman eating a singed
sheep's head, and was asked by the eater what he thought of that dish?
"_Dish_, sir, do you call that a dish?" "Dish or no dish," rejoined the
Caledonian, "there's a deal o' fine confused feedin' aboot it, let me
tell you."

We conclude these rambling remarks with a quotation from Arnauld, the
friend of Pascal, and the intrepid antagonist of the Vatican and the
Grand Monarque; one of the noblest, freest, most untiring and honest
intellects, our world has ever seen. "Why don't you rest sometimes?"
said his friend Nicole to him. "Rest! why should I rest here? haven't I
an eternity to rest in?" The following sentence from his "_Port-Royal
Logic_," so well introduced and translated by Mr. Baynes, contains the
gist of all we have been trying to say. It should be engraven on the
tablets of every young student's heart--for the heart has to do with
study as well as the head.

"There is nothing more desirable than _good sense and justness
of mind_,--all other qualities of mind are of limited use, but
exactness of judgment is of general utility in every part and in
all employments of life.

"_We are too apt to employ reason merely as an instrument for
acquiring the sciences, whereas we ought to avail ourselves of
the sciences, as an instrument for perfecting our reason_;
justness of mind being inf