Show the essence of dullness ItI it Is true no doubt that many learn ed people are dull but there Is I 1 no in di catlon cation whatever that they are dull because they are learned true dull ness is seldom acquired it Is a al grace the manifestations of 0 which however modified by education re main in substance the same fill bill a dull man to the brim with knowledge and he will not become less dull as the enthusiasts for education vainly imagine but neither will he become duller he ile will remain in essence what he always has been and always must have been but whereas his dullness would it if left to itself have haie been merely vacuous it may have become under careful cultivation pretentious and pedantic balfour |