;advance much further, if they always keep to the direct road, than those who run and go astray.
For my part, I have never presumed my mind to be more perfect than average in an y way; I have, in fact, often wished that my thoughts were as quick, or my imagination as precise and distinct, or my memory as capacious or prompt, as those of some other men. And I know of no other qualities than these which make for the perfection of the mind; for as to reason, or good sense, in as much as it alone makes us men and distinguishes us from the beasts, I am quite willing to believe that it is whole and entire in each of us, and to follow in the common opinion of the philosophers who say that there are differences of more or less only among the accidents, and not among the forms, or natures, of the individuals of a single species.
21. According to the author, the three elements that comprise our mind are_____.
A tenacity of thought, capacious memory, quickness of mind
B precise of wit, ease of conscience, quickness of thought
C quickness of wit, ease of conscience, quickness of thought
D promptness of memory, distinctness of imagination, quickness of thought
22. The basic idea of the first paragraph may be stated as follows .
A all persons have an
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