CARTOON VI. PAUL AND BARNABAS AT LYSTRA. By whatever terms we define genius, a correct definition must include the highest intellectual powers, employed in the production of new combinations and results; but on what objects in particular employed, must be determined by those circumstances, in the case of each individual, which form his tastes or characterise his condition. The word genius, in popular usage, is applied with the greatest frequency to highly-gifted persons who have devoted themselves to the pursuits of the poet, the painter, and the sculptor; the reason of which may be, that in such pursuits there is the most manifest scope for the inventive faculty. The investigations of science, the arts of government, and even the spirit of adventure, may present a fit sphere for the exercise of the highest and most |