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 Rh 2.

To George Cumberland.

Lambeth, 6th December 1795.

,—I congratulate you, not on any achievement, because I know that the genius that produces the designs can execute them in any manner, notwithstanding the pretended philosophy which teaches that execution is the power of one and invention of another. Locke says it is the same faculty that invents judges, and I say he who can invent can execute.