own; and, besides, the plagiarism appeared in a
foreign country, where there was little probability of detection.

Channing, in his essay on Bonaparte, says:

"We would observe that military talent, even of the
highest order, is far from holding the first place
among intellectual endowments. It is one of the
lower forms of genius, for it is not conversant
with the highest and richest objects of thought....
Still the chief work of a general is to apply
physical force--to remove physical obstructions--to
avail himself of physical aids and advantages--to
act on matter--to overcome rivers, ramparts,
mountains, and human muscles; and these are not the
highest objects of mind, nor do they demand
intelligence of the highest order:--and accordingly
nothing is more common than to find men, eminent in
this department, who are almost wholly wanting in
the noblest energies of the soul--in imagination
and taste--in the capacity of enjoying works of
genius--in large views of human nature--in the
moral sciences--in the application of analysis and
generalization to the human mind and to society,
and in original conceptions on the great subjects
which have absorbed the most glorious
understandings."

The thief in "The New Monthly," says:

"Military talent, even of the highest _grade_, is
_very_ far from holding the first place among
intellectual endowments. It is one of the lower
forms of genius, for it is _never made_ conversant
with the _more delicate and abstruse of mental
operations_.

It is used to apply physical force; to remove
physical force; to remove physical obstructions; to
avail itself of physical aids and advantages; and
all these are not the highest objects of mind, nor
do they demand intelligence of the highest _and
rarest_ order. Nothing is more common than to find
men, eminent in the science and practice of war,
_wholly_ wanting in the nobler energies of the
soul; in imagination, in taste, in _enlarged_ views
of human nature, in the moral sciences, in the
application of analysis and generalization to the
human mind and to society; or in original