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we may still believe, is social. To be a man is to 

 be thinking desire ; and the agreement of desires is 

 not in oneness of intellectual conclusion, but in the 

 sympathies of passion and the concords of action : 

 and yet significant union in affection and be 

 havior may depend upon a consensus in thought 

 that is secured only by discrimination and com 

 parison. 



