* ‘And so, then,’ the Cynic objects, ‘you rank your own mind (and you tell us so frankly) amongst the primary formations?’ As I love to annoy him, it would give me pleasure to reply – ‘Perhaps I do.’ But as I never answer more questions than are necessary, I confine myself to saying, that this is not a necessary construction of the words. Some minds stand nearer to the type of the original nature in man, are truer than others to the great magnet in our dark planet. Minds that are impassioned on a more colossal scale than ordinary, deeper in their vibrations, and more extensive in the scale of their vibrations – whether, in other parts of their intellectual system, they had or had not a corresponding compass – will tremble to greater depths from a fearful convulsion, and will come round by a longer curve of undulations.