istics to the head of George Stevenson, one of
the most original of _mechanical_ geniuses. Both were self-taught, but
one was intensely _active_, the other _cogitative_. The mind of Clare
was constantly engaged in poetical musings upon the moral affections,
their pains and their pleasures; that of Stevenson was drawn by an
inherent impulse to physical objects, and perseveringly devoted to the
discovery of such mechanical combinations of them as might be of
lasting benefit to society. There might be pointed out the cause of
the difference of style which characterized the oratory of Mansfield
and Erskine, of Canning and of Brougham: and that which constituted
the elements of mind and their combinations, which raised Edmund
Burke, as a prescient statesman, to a height such as neither Pitt, nor
Fox, nor even Chatham was capable of reaching. There might be seen in
Banks's fine bust of him, the cause why Warren Hastings, though he was
endowed with many good qualities which endeared him to his friends,
was, nevertheless, covetous, self-willed, domineering, unjust, and, in
some instances, pitiless, as Governor-General of India. What a
contrast to this did the bust of the Marquis of Wellesley, by
Nollekens, present. Not only did it indicate that the disposition of
that distinguished statesman was unimbued with the slightest tincture
of hypocrisy, avarice, or the love of self-willed domination, but, on
the contrary, it was phrenologically symbolic of an instinctive
carelessness in regard to his own pecuniary interests, a disposition
which in his case, perhaps, amounted to a fault, and which his
intellect, capacious of great things, and comparatively heedless of
whatever is little, was ill-calculated to redress. There might be seen
in Behnes Burlowe's bust of Macintosh indications of the vastness of
his intellect, and the unobtrusive gentleness of his disposition;
whilst Chantrey's exquisite bust of Lord Castlereagh afforded marked
indications of his having been endowed with courage the most heroic,
unalloyed by the slightest tinge of complexional fear, and with an
intellect well balanced, devising, and industrious, but certainly
narrow in its range as compared with that of Sir. J. Macintosh. There,
too, might be seen the true physical indications of the imperturbable
coolness of Castlereagh, and of the sensitiveness and warm
susceptibility of Canning.

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