EQUALITY OF MAN WITH MAN.--TALENTS EXTENSIVELY DISTRIBUTED.--WAY
IN WHICH THIS DISTRIBUTION IS COUNTERACTED.--THE APTITUDE OF
CHILDREN FOR DIFFERENT PURSUITS SHOULD BE EARLY SOUGHT OUT.--
HINTS FOR A BETTER SYSTEM OF EDUCATION.--AMBITION AN UNIVERSAL
PRINCIPLE.

The reflections thus put down, may assist us in answering the
question as to the way in which talents are distributed among men
by the hand of nature.

All things upon the earth and under the earth, and especially all
organised bodies of the animal or vegetable kingdom, fall into
classes. It is by this means, that the child no sooner learns
the terms, man, horse, tree, flower, than, if an object of any of
these kinds which he has never seen before, is exhibited to him,
he pronounces without hesitation, This is a man, a horse, a tree,
a flower.

All organised bodies of the animal or vegetable kingdom are cast
in a mould of given dimension and feature belonging to a certain
number of individuals, though distinguished by inexhaustible
varieties. It is by means of those features that the class of
each individual is determined.

To confine ourselves to man.

All men, the monster and the lusus naturae excepted, have a
certain form, a certain complement of limbs, a certain internal
structure, and organs of sense--may we not add further, certain