5. Genius either discovers new materials of nature, or combines the known with novelty. 6. Talent arranges, cultivates, polishes, the discoveries of genius. 7. Intuition is the attendant of genius; gradual improvement that of talent. 8. Arrangement presupposes materials: fruits follow the bud and foliage, and judgment the luxuriance of fancy. 9. The fiery sets his subject in a blaze, and mounts its vapours; the melancholy cleaves the rock, or gropes through thorns for his; the sanguine deluges all, and seizes none; the phlegmatic sucks one, and drops off with repletion. 10. Some enter the gates of art with golden keys, and take their seats with dignity among the demi-gods of fame; some burst the doors and leap into a niche with savage power; thousands consume their time in chinking useless keys, and aiming feeble pushes against the inexorable doors. 11. Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius. 12. Organization is the mother of talent; practice its nurse; the senses its dominion; but hearts alone can penetrate hearts. 13. It is the lot of genius to be opposed, and to be invigorated by opposition: all extremes touch each other; frigid praise and censure wait upon attainable or common powers; but the successful adventurer in the realms of discovery leaps on an unknown or long-lost shore, ennobles it with his name, and grasps immortality. 14. Genius without bias, is a stream without direction: it inundates all, and ends in stagnation. 15. He who pretends to have sacrificed genius to the pursuits of interest or fashion; and he who wants to persuade you he has indisputable titles to a crown, but chooses to wave them for the emoluments of a partnership in trade, deserve equal belief. 16. Taste is the legitimate offspring of nature, educated by propriety: fashion is the bastard of vanity, dressed by art. 17. The immediate operation of taste is to ascertain the kind; the next, to appreciate the degrees of excellence. _Coroll._--Taste, founded on sense and elegance of mind, is reared by culture, invigorated by practice and comparison: scantiness stops short of it; fashion adulterates it: it is shackled by pedantry, and overwhelmed by luxuriance. Taste sheds a ray over the homeliest or the most uncouth subject. Fashion frequently flattens the elegant, the gentle, and the great, into one lumpy mass of disgust. If "foul and fair" be all that your gross-spun sense discerns, if you are blind to the intermediate degrees of excellence, you may perhaps be a great man--a senator--a conqueror; but if you respect yourself, never presume to utter a syllable on works of taste. 18. If mind and organs conspire to qualify you for a judge in works of taste, remember that you are to be possessed of three things--the subject of the work which you are to examine; the character of the artist as such; and, before all, of impartiality.