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analytic distinction between the subject and the 

 object, and their respective effects, to consider such 

 phenomena as mechanical entities, subject to neces- 

 sary and eternal laws. The animal therefore accepts 

 the idea suggested by his spontaneous and subjective 

 nature, that these phenomena are alive. Grass, 

 fruits, plants, water, the movement of material 

 bodies, ordinary and extraordinary meteors, all are 

 implicitly apprehended by him as subjects endowed 

 with will and purpose after the manner of mankind. 

 Nor can the living subjectivity of the phenomenon 

 ever be gauged by the animal in whom the deliberate 

 power of reflection is wanting. His life is conse- 

 quently passed in a world of living subjects, not of 

 phenomena and laws which mechanically act to- 

 gether ; it is, so to speak, a permanent metaphor. 



Man himself, so far as his animal nature is con- 

 cerned, acts in the same way, and although he subse- 

 quently attains to the exercise of reasoning powers in 

 virtue of the psychical reduplication of himself, the 

 primitive faculty persists, and hence comes the 

 mythical creation of a peculiar world of conceptions 

 which give rise to all superstitions, mythologies, and 

 religions. This is also the process of science itself, 

 as far as the classifying method and intrinsic logical 

 form are concerned. The historical source of the two 

 great streams of the intellect, the mythical and the 

 scientific, is found in the primitive act of cntifying 

 the phenomenon presented to the senses. 



