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such as these, that we ought to conclude that 

 the man of science is to be preferred to the 

 artist; the wisdom and temperance of age, 

 to the appetite and passion of youth ; and 

 civil life to either savage or brutal. Intel- 

 lect bears the same relation to intellectual 

 things, as sense does to those that are material ; 

 and, as intellect is better than sense, it must 

 evidently appear, that intellectual pursuits are 

 to be preferred to those which are sensible or 

 material ; and, finally, that the objects of intel- 

 lect cannot be derived from objects of sense ; 

 otherwise, they would be subordinate, and not 

 superior to sensible things. 



It is by the proper exercise of these 

 powers of intellect, directed to those objects 

 which seem to be congenial to its nature, 

 that man feels conscious that he constitutes the 

 first of all generated beings ; that although ex- 

 cited by appetite and sense, he is nevertheless 

 able to resist, to subdue, and even to act in 

 opposition to those wants ; often compelling the 

 body to fast, when it craves for food, to re- 

 ceive medicines which convey impressions nau- 

 seous and painful ; to expose itself to the in- 

 clemency of the seasons, and to various dangers; 

 to labor and to fatigue ; and patiently to submit 

 to death itself : 



Decus et decorum cst pro patria mori, 



