ON GENIUS:

IN WHICH

IT IS ATTEMPTED TO BE PROVED,

THAT THERE IS

NO MENTAL DISTINCTION AMONG MANKIND.

BY W. GRISENTHWAITE,

AUTHOR OF A

REFUTATION OF T. PAINE'S AGE OF REASON;" AND A

66 NEW THEORY OF AGRICULTURE," SECONd edition.

"Sensus, de quibus loquimur, quinque sunt; visus, anditus, odoratus, gustus, et tactus. Hi aut in corpore sunt, aut circa corpus, solisque sunt caducis corporibus familiares. Anima vero, omni corpore, ipsa divinior est. Multo magis anima majoris est majestatis, quam ut sensu egeat." MACROBIUS.

LONDON:

HAMILTON AND ADAMS, PATERNOSTER ROW; SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, STATIONERS' COURT;

AND S. BENNETT, NOTTINGHAM,

MDCCCXXX.

BODLEIAN

28-9-1900

LIBRARY

t

TO THE

PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDENTS,

AND

MEMBERS,

OF THE

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,

Bromley House, Nottingham,

THE FOLLOWING ESSAY,

READ AND DISCUSSED AT ONE OF THEIR MEETINGS,

December, 1827,

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY

THE AUTHOR.