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nature, either vaguely, or in an animal form, is a 

 fundamental and necessary fact, Loth in animals and 

 in man ; it is a spontaneous effect of the psychical 

 faculty in its relations to the world. We think 

 that this truth cannot be controverted, and it will 

 be still more clearly proved in the course of this 

 work. 



Such a fact, considered in its first manifestation 

 and in the laws which originally govern it in animals, 

 and in man as far as his animal nature is concerned, 

 assumes a fresh aspect, and is of two-fold force when 

 it is studied in man after he has begun to reason, 

 that is, when his original psychical faculty is doubled. 

 The animation and personification of objects and 

 phenomena by animals are always relative to those of 

 the external world ; that is, animals transfuse and 

 project themselves into every form which really excites, 

 affects, alarms, allures, or threatens them; and the 

 spontaneous psychical faculty which such a vivifying 

 process always produces necessarily remains within the 

 sphere of their external perceptions and apprehensions. 

 In a word, they live in the midst of the objective 

 nature, which they animate with consciousness and 

 will, and their internal power is altogether absorbed 

 in this external transformation. 



In man, in addition to this animation of the things 

 and phenomena of the external world, another more 

 profound and vivid animation takes place, the anima- 

 tion not merely of external forms, but of internal 



