All Sorts of Minus.—There is a strong disposition in men of opposite minds to_ despise each other. A grave man cannot conceive what is the use of wit in society. A person who takes a strong common-sense view of the subject is for pushing out by the head and shoulders an ingenious theorist, who catches at the.slightest and faintest analogies: and another man, who scouts the ridiculous from alar, will hold no commerce with him who feels exquisitely the fine feeling of the heart, and is alive to nothing else: whereas, talent is talent, and mind is mind, in all its branches! Wit gives to life one of its best flavours, common-sense leads to immediate action, and gives to society its daily motion; large and comprehensive views cause its annual rotation ; ridicule chastises folly and impudence, and keeps men in their proper sphere ; subtlety seizes hold of the fine threads, of truth ; analogy darts away in the most sublime discoveries; feeling paints all the exquisite passions of man's soul, and rewards him by a thousand inward visitations, for the sorrows that come from without. God made it all! It is all good I We must despise no sort of talent, tliev all have their separate duties and uses — all the happiness of man for their object: they all improve, exalt and gladden him. — -Sydiiey Smith.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 416, 29 October 1856, Page 8
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