Gents Mag 1842 part 1 p.17

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1842 part 1 p.17 We are unwilling to throw any check upon the pleasing emotions which the perusal of these lines is calculated to raise in the mind of the reader, by any grave, prosaic reflections of our own: but we must be permitted to say, that we are the more anxious to impress our own doctrine, because we are conviniced that the habit, so universal in all climes and ages of the world, of speaking metaphorically, of endowing objects with properties not inherent, of personifying, has had a too important influence upon all systems of logic and metaphysic; in which langauge has been unduly treated rather as the mistress than the interpreter of philosophy.

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