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TRAVELS IN AE'RICA.occasion to discltss ; but certain it is, man cherishes and adheres to theideas he does possess, with an estimation proportioned t.o theirrarity,and this constitutes narrow minds.'Vhena portrait ofan European ofdistinction was shown here to a certain Moor, not of the ordinary chlss,he looked behind the frame to see what was become of the l'est of theman. Convinced tbat the similitude 'thus effected to human 'nature \Vas"-powerful, his observation , was, "Why does nothe speak?" Amongthe various eifects of ignorance upon the minci, not the Ieast notieeableis the impression tbiltany power; the operation of which is beyond thecomprehension, is competent to-infinity.Now as m{)st powers, to afaeuIty thus cireumscribed, aTe out ofits bounds, the ignorant man can·not conceive that it is not as easy to make siJeak, as look.If the fae.simile is practicable in one case, why not in another? He mu~t be aduB felIow indeed, who, having,got sof~r, should stop there.nut snehare tIlt' etfects of science having faHen into inaclequate hands! !-Howdifferent would it have been had the business beentaken up by thosecompetent to sueh a thing r1-Here,however, we have a radical bf varionsfable which pervades the world, From l'ts very infancy clown to thisday.We meet with gross absurdity daily at home, but the differenceis in the mode; and it is modes that people go abroad to sec, for manis the same every where. Mt'. HamHton, in his" Egyptiaca," justlyobserves,(strange" that a country which has been the grand entrepôt oiideas, should now have beeomeso barrenof them as to be quoted forobtuseness of perception !) that any thing, to strike people of the dass ofmind ofthe nativesthere, should seem out ofthe bounds ofnature. 'Whateveris ,vithin them is no wonder. The ingenuity then oft.he Euro'pean..isjudged by the criterion of Moliere's cook: "Any cook can give a gooddinner with money: ifyou assume excellenèe, produce us one withoutit/''Vhat the Moors were in Spain, why should they nOitbe iu MOfOè-