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Show many are thought not only unexplained, bu inexplicable beasts, sex a language sleep dreams Philosophically considered, the universe i composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictl speaking therefore al tha i separat from us, all which Philosophy distinguishe as the Nor Mg, that is, both nature an art, all other men and my own body, mus be ranked unde this name, Natur & I enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word i both senses-in its common and in its phi losophical import. In inquiries so genera as our present one, the inaccuracy is no material; no confusion of thought will occur Nature, in the common sense, refers to es sences unchanged by man; space, the air the river, the leaf & Arf is applied to th mixture of his will with the same things as in a house, a canal, a statue, a picture But his operations taken together are so insignificant, a little chipping, baking, patching a impressio so grand as that of the worl on the hu ma an washing mind tha they d i not vary the result Digital Image© 20 5 Marriott Library University of Utah, Al righs reserved |