I only intended to mention that he is here." The reader may well suppose that Father Hecker fully appreciated Brownson's literary genius.

The English language in his grasp was a weapon to slay and a talisman to raise to life.

Never was argumentation made more delightful reading; never did a master instruct more exclusively by the aid of his disciple's highest faculties than did Brownson.

Habituated his whole life long to the ardent study of the greatest topics of the human understanding, he was able to teach all, as he had taught young Hecker, how to think, discern, judge, penetrate, decide about them with matchless power; and he clothes his conclusions in language as adequate to express them as human language well can be.

Clearness, precision, force, purity, vividness, loftiness are terms applicable to Dr.Brownson's literary style.