Whatever may be thought of his moral character, Almquist was a great thinker and a wonderfully versatile writer.

Mr. Tylor merely writes: 'The action of the famous divining-rod, with its curiously versatile sensibility to water, ore, treasure, and thieves, seems to belong partly to trickery and partly to more or less conscious direction by honester operators.'

We are essentially versatile.

This Dr. John Browna singularly versatile English divine (1717-1766)was one of the first, as Wordsworth pointed put, to lead the way to a true estimate of the English Lakes.