text:  The more we reflect upon this important subject we shall find the more that external circumstances have an influence upon intellect increasing in an accumulating ratio; that the political institutions of various countries have their fluctuating and contradictory influences; that example controls in a great degree intellectual production causing after-growths as it were of the first luxuriant crop of masterminds and giving a character and individuality to habits of thought and modes of expression; in brief that great occasions will have great instruments and there never was yet a noted time that had not noted men