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Show has seen a person of powerful characte and happy genius, will have remarke how easily he took all things along wit him,-the persons, the opinions, and th day, and nature became ancillary to man 3. There isstill another aspectunder whic the beaut of the worl ma be viewed namely, as it becomes an object of the intellect. Beside the relation of things t virtue, they have a relation to thought The intellect searches out the absolut order of things as they stand in the min of God, and without the colors of affection The intellectual & the active powers see to succeed each other in man, and the exclusive activity of the one, generates th exclusive activit of the other. There i something unfriendly in each to the other but they are like the alternate periods o i feeding and working in animals; each pre pares and certainly wil b followed b the other. Therefore does beauty, which in relation to actions, as we have see comes unsought, and comes because it i unsought, remain for the apprehension an pursuit of the intellect; and the again, i its turn, of the active power. Nothing divin 3 |