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Frederick Wyatt.

He had a curious mind, a mind that seemed incomplete. He had qualities for the complete use of which other qualities, which he lacked, were needed. Thus, he had a metaphysical comprehension of the highest kind, yet no shadow of the power to reason it into coherent theories; he would be perpetually astonishing me with moral theories of life, space, time or infinity — but I had to seize them as well as I could, for he had no power to do any more than set them forth, posit them — he was incapable of the slightest reasoning to uphold them.