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rests. The same powers which constituted the mighty intellect
of Isaac Newton, constitute, also, the intellects of all other men.
That same light which made his mind luminous with a sun-
like brightness, has enlightened, also, every man that cometh
into the world. I am not speaking, of course, of the amount
of acquired knowledge, or of the relative capacities for acquisi-
tion. Herein, as in many other respects, do the minds of men
so differ, that no two probably ever existed, or ever will exist,
precisely alike. This kind of original likeness is not that
which I speak of. Indeed, Phrenology first fully exhibited the
error and absurdity of this notion. I only mean to say, that as
God has given to every soundly-constituted body eyes to see,
and feet to walk, and lips to utter, so has he given to every
soundly-constituted mind the powers, in kind, though not in
degree, of every other mind, and that he has made them subject,
in every individual of the race, to the same laws. The differ-
ences between different minds are like the differences between
different bodies. Some are stronger than others in their origin-
al constitution; others are rendered strong and effective by
active training, and each one has its own peculiar combination
of endowments, as each face has of features. But the kind of
pleasure derived from the use of each intellectual power is the
same in every mind, and the amount of individual gratification,
flowing from the action of a limited power, may often be but
little less than that resulting from the action of the highest.
The single essential point, so far as individual happiness is
concerned, is the cultivation and employment of the power
itself; its appropriation to the purposes for which it was be-
stowed.  I may remark here, that the acquired differences
among men, depending upon the purely intellectual powers,
correspond more nearly to differences of outward condition,
than those depending upon the other portions of his spiritual
nature. High intellectual culture presupposes exemption from
the necessity of constant bodily toil, and the means of full and
free communion with cultivated cotemporary intellect, and
with the intellect, also, of accumulated ages. This exemption