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Another of his favourite subjects is the kindness of God: Videte et gustate quam mitis sit Dominus "O taste and see that the Lord is good." Naught can equal the pleasure of this contemplation, of this life in God. Augustin conceives it as a musician who has fathomed the secret of numbers.
Rengger, on the diseases of Cebus Azarae; on the diversity of the mental faculties of monkeys; on the Payaguas Indians; on the inferiority of Europeans to savages in their senses; revenge taken by monkeys; on maternal affection in a Cebus; on the reasoning powers of American monkeys; on the use of stones by monkeys for cracking hard nuts; on the sounds uttered by Cebus Azarae; on the signal-cries of monkeys; on the polygamous habits of Mycetes caraya; on the voice of the howling monkeys; on the odour of Cervus campestris; on the beards of Mycetes caraya and Pithecia Satanas; on the colours of Felis mitis; on the colours of Cervus paludosus; on sexual differences of colour in Mycetes; on the colour of the infant Guaranys; on the early maturity of the female of Cebus Azarae; on the beards of the Guaranys; on the emotional notes employed by monkeys; on American polygamous monkeys.
We agree with the writer that 'no one that has looked on her can pretend to forget the lady." The point ought to be cleared up. New Monthly Magazine, April, 1826. Our friend Mitis. I do not identify Mitis among Lamb's many friends. Presentation copies. The late Mr. Odd presents of game. Compare the little essay on "Presents of Game," Vol. New Monthly Magazine, March, 1826.
Still, Honesty has no business to be helpless and draggle-tailed; she must be active and brisk, and make use of her wits; or, though she keep clear or the prison, 'tis no very great wonder if she fall on the parish. "Mitis. This Macilente, signior, begins to be more sociable on a sudden." Every Man out of his Humour. "Punt. Signior, you are sufficiently instructed. "Fast. Who, I, sir?" Ibid.
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing. Our friend Mitis carries this humour of never refusing a present, to the very point of absurdity if it were possible to couple the ridiculous with so much mistaken delicacy, and real good-nature.
Besides his work as a reviewer, which was considerable, Maine wrote in an admirable style, and with a scholarship and sense which, in the recrudescence of more barbaric thought, have brought down socialist and other curses on his head many works on the philosophy of law, politics, and history, the chief of which were his famous Ancient Law , Village Communities , Early Law and Custom , with a severe criticism on Democracy called Popular Government . Few writers of our time could claim the phrase mitis sapentia as Maine could, though it is possible that he was a little too much given to theorise.
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