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principles. Narrow indeed, would be our mental vision, were 

 it to be confined to single unconnected observations, laid up 

 indiscriminately in the storehouse of thought ; but our minds, 

 not by our own will, but by a faculty received directly from 

 our Creator, instinctively generalize and arrange their mass of 

 single observations ; and we almost without an effort, perform 

 that operation in the world of thought within us, which the 

 great Linna3us effected in the vegetable kingdom. 



