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of those laws, it is to be expected that he should have a natural light, or
light of nature, or instinctive insight, or
genius, tending to make him guess those laws
aright, or nearly aright. This conclusion
is confirmed when we find that every
species of animal is endowed with a
similar genius. For they not only, one and all,
have some correct notions of force, that
is to say, some correct notions, though excessively narrow, of
phenomena which we, with our
broader conceptions, should call phenomena
of force, and some similarly correct notions
about the minds of their own kind and
of other kinds, which are the two sufficient
cotyledons of all our science, but they