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What the soul may be, I cannot pretend to conjecture; but I cannot separate it from the intelligence!" "Can you not? A blow on the brain can destroy the intelligence! Do you think it can destroy the soul? 'From Marlbro's eyes the tears of dotage flow, And Swift expires, a driveller and a show. "Towards the close of his life even Kant's giant intellect left him.

The well-known lines upon the battle of Blenheim itself were given with a wonderful fire and force: "'Twas then great Marlbro's mighty soul was proved, That in the shock of charging hosts, unmoved Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war, In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage.

Instead of making the hero slay his thousands and ten thousands, like the old epic heroes, Addison had some sense of what is required in a modern general, and so made Marlborough direct the battle from the outside, comparing him to an angel riding on the whirlwind: 'T was then great Marlbro's mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war; In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage.

What the soul may be, I cannot pretend to conjecture; but I cannot separate it from the intelligence!" "Can you not? A blow on the brain can destroy the intelligence! Do you think it can destroy the soul? 'From Marlbro's eyes the tears of dotage flow, And Swift expires, a driveller and a show. "Towards the close of his life even Kant's giant intellect left him.