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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1826
Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, 28 February 1826
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Foston, Feb. 28th, 1826.
My dear Jeffrey,

I can make nothing of Craniology, for this reason: they are taking many different species of the same propensity, and giving to them each a bump. Now I believe that if nature meant to give any bumps at all, it must have been to the genus, and not to the species and varieties; because the human skull could not contain outward signs of a tenth part of the various methods in which any propensity may act. But to state what are original propensities, and to trace out the family or genealogy of each, is a task requiring great length, patience, and metaphysical acuteness; and Combe’s book is too respectably done to be taken by storm.

Instead of this, I will send you, as you seem pressed, the review of ‘Granby,’ a novel of great merit. Stop me, by return of post, if this book is engaged, and believe me always most truly yours,

Sydney Smith.