Out of the line of burials he had not one idea, could not give an intelligible reply to a single question, nor be trusted even to feed himself.

While memory-development is thus apparent in some otherwise defective intellects, it has probably as often or oftener been observed to occur in connection with full or great intelligence.

Edmund Burke, Clarendon, John Locke, Archbishop Tillotson, and Dr.Johnson were all distinguished for having great strength of memory.

Sir W.

Hamilton observed that Grotius, Pascal, Leibnitz, and Euler were not less celebrated for their intelligence than for their memory.