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Excerpt from Sketches of the History of Man, Vol. 4 of 4
Man is a being fufceptible of pleafure and pain: thefe generate defire to attain what is agreeable, and to {hun what is difagreeable and he is enabled by other powers to gratify his defires. One power, termed irylinfi, is exerted indeed with confcioufnefs but without will, and, blindly without intention to produce any effeel. Brute animals ae't for the mo? part by infiine't hunger prompts them to eat, and cold to take ihelter; knowingly indeed, but without exerting any adt of will, and without forefight of what will happen. Infants of the human: fpecies, little fuperior to brutes, are, like brutes, governed by inf'tine't: they lay hold of the nipple, without knowing that fucking will fatisfy their hunger; and they weep when pained, without any view of relief. An other power is governed by intention and.
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