[4] Vide Macaulay's article on Warren Hastings, in the Edinburgh Review.
STYLES OF PHILOSOPHIES.
WRITTEN FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY MAGAZINE
BY REV. J. R. MORELL,
Translator of Fourier "On the Passions," &c.
The history of literatures, like that of nations, has presented its varieties as well as its curiosities, and both alike furnish similar though not identical features.
1st. Families and clans are traceable equally in each development, and the movements both of literatures and races have displayed a corresponding monotony and eccentricity, convergence and divergence, in proportion as they have progressed along the beaten track of opinion or performed outpost duty as the corps of guides.
2d. Not only is this family likeness obvious in the general characteristics of ethnography and authorship, but the laws of lineage and the hereditary transmission of qualities are as strongly marked in one case as in the other. Letters as well as races have their hereditary sceptres and coronets; but whereas, in the latter case the fleshly heir of the great of other days may chance to be unworthy of his sires, the spiritual sonship of the patrician writer is stereotyped upon each line and lineament of his nature.
3d. Nor is the connection between words and peoples confined to a law of analogy running through them both, but they have reacted upon and moulded each other in a manner curious to relate, and races and letters have mutually made and unmade each other.