54 LESSONS FKOM NATUKE. [CHAP. II. 



condition, of learning but in part and through sensible expe 

 rience ; yet it is seen to be furnished with perceptions which 

 are true and valid, and with a power of learning accurately 

 what comes within its range the endowment of a truly 

 intellectual nature, though at the same time of a corporeal 

 organism, in other words the property of a rational animal, 

 that is, of man. 



