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the system all its internal operations proceed quietly, stea- 

 dily, and constantly, whether the mind be absorbed in thought 

 or wholly vacant. The kind of existence resulting from 

 these functions alone, and to which our attention has hither- 

 to been confined, must be regarded as the result of mere 

 vegetative, rather than of animal life. It is time that we 

 turn our views to the higher objects, and more curious field 

 of inquiry, belonging to the latter. 



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