His results, brought about by the very soul and essence of method, have, in truth, the whole air of intuition. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension præternatural. He derives pleasure from even the most trivial occupations bringing his talent into play. As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment. We appreciate them only in their effects. The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
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