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Man is a troublesome being and
difficulties spring out of him,
however we range or classify him.
But we prefer to include man
within the domain of nature, and
to divide the phenomena of na-
-ture into two sorts; those which
are mechanical in their origin
and those which are psychical.

All the vegetable and animal
world is, of course, within the bounds of
the natural; and if we attempt to make
any part of man above nature we have
to divide his rational from his animal
part, and consider him partly above nat-
-ture and partly within nature, which, to say
the least, is an inconvenience. Besides,