It may be expected, since I am upon this Subject, that I should take notice of Mr.

Dryden's

Definition of Wit; which, with all the Deference that is due to the Judgment of so great a Man, is not so properly a Definition of Wit, as of good writing in general.

[Wit]

, as he defines it, is

'a Propriety of Words and Thoughts adapted to the Subject.'[2]

[If]

this be a true Definition of Wit, I am apt to think that

Euclid

was