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To excel in any profession, in which but few arrive at

mediocrity, is the most decisive mark of what is called genius,

or superior talents. The public admiration which attends upon

such distinguished abilities makes always a part of their reward;

a greater or smaller, in proportion as it is higher or lower in

degree. It makes a considerable part of that reward in the

profession of physic; a still greater, perhaps, in that of law;

in poetry and philosophy it makes almost the whole.