There are minds to which nature has given a memory capable of comparing truths, of suggesting an arrangement that places these truths in the fullest light; but to which, at the same time, she has refused that ardour of genius which insists on inventing and opening out for itself new lines of discovery.
This passage discusses the dual nature of certain minds that can compare truths but lack the drive for new discoveries.
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