There is a conformity in the cast of their minds, and the quality of each is distinct from the other, and the very faculty which fits them for one particular pursuit, is just the reverse required for another.

If these are truisms, as they may appear, we need not demonstrate that from which we only wish to draw our conclusion.

Why does this remarkable similarity prevail through the classes of genius?
Because each, in their favourite production, is working with the same appropriate organ.

The poetical eye is early busied with imagery; as early will the reveries of the poetical mind be busied with the passions; as early will the painter's hand be copying forms and colours; as early will the young musician's ear wander in the creation of sounds, and the philosopher's head mature its meditations.

It is then the aptitude of the appropriate organ, however it varies in its character, in which genius seems most concerned, and which is connatural and connate with the individual, and, as it was expressed in old days, is _born_ with him.