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whether as a simple interrogation, or as more or less plausible, or occasionally as an irresistible belief. But far from constituting, by itself, a logical justification, to say that we cannot help yielding to the suggestion to whichever of the three degrees we do is only to confess to not having trained ourselves to control our thoughts, although thought is quite as subject to self-control as the contractions of the striped muscles. The impulse to admit the hypothesis rebel, if it will, a person endowed with reason is able to set it aside, and will not be the less disposed to do so that impulse frets or rages under the restraint. It is more to the purpose, however, to urge that the strength of the impulse shows that it is instinctive. Animals of all species rise far above the

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