The essays of Elia . all, from any considerations of jealousy or self-comparison, for the occasional communion with suchminds has constituted the fortune and felicity of my life—^but the habit of too constant intercourse with spiritsabove you, instead of raising you, keeps you frequent doses of original thinking from othersrestrain what lesser portion of that faculty you maypossess of your own. You get entangled in anothermans mind, even as you lose yourself in another mansgrounds. You are walking with a tall varlet, whosestrides out-pace yours to lassitude. The constantoperation of s
The essays of Elia . all, from any considerations of jealousy or self-comparison, for the occasional communion with suchminds has constituted the fortune and felicity of my life—^but the habit of too constant intercourse with spiritsabove you, instead of raising you, keeps you frequent doses of original thinking from othersrestrain what lesser portion of that faculty you maypossess of your own. You get entangled in anothermans mind, even as you lose yourself in another mansgrounds. You are walking with a tall varlet, whosestrides out-pace yours to lassitude. The constantoperation of such potent agency would reduce me, I amconvinced, to imbecility. You may derive thoughtsfrom others ; your way of thinking, the mould in whichyour thoughts are cast, must be your own. Intellect maybe imparted, but not each mans intellectual frame.— As little as I should wish to be always thus draggedupward, as little (or rather still less) is it desirable tobe stunted downwards by your associates. The trumpet 88. f : -^ HE IS BOV-RID, SICK OF PEHPETUAL BOY. THE OLD AND THE NEW SCHOOLMASTER does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisperteases you by its provoking inaudibihty. Why are we never quite at our ease in the presenceof a schoolmaster ?—because we are conscious that heis not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and outof place, in the society of his equals. He comes likeGulliver from among his little people, and he cannotfit the stature of his understanding to yours. Hecannot meet you on the square. He wants a point givenhim, like an indifferent whist-player. He is so used toteaching that he wants to be teaching you. One ofthese professors, upon my complaining that these littlesketches of mine were anything but methodical, andthat I was unable to make them otherwise, kindly offeredto instruct me in the method by which young gentlemenin his seminary were taught to compose English jests of a schoolmaster are coarse, or thin. Theydo not tell ou
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