degree of acuteness: or as the muscles which sustain the pressure of daily toil, at length develop themselves in enormous disproportion to the rest of the body; securing, it is true, a vast accession of strength, but by a sacrifice of symmetry and beauty. In some instances it is even probable that severe and unremitting application to some originally uncongenial pursuit, may alter or reverse the ordinances of nature; such may have been the urgent demand upon some one faculty, not at first possessed