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shows itself in our fellow-men, and we note its in- 

 creasingly clear manifestation in infancy. We can, 

 indeed, make rational, and (we are convinced) perfectly 

 valid, inferences as to its origin, just as our own mind 

 can reveal to us its nature ; but its origin is entirely 

 removed from that field of observation which is 

 furnished to us by a study of the physical and psychical 

 powers of merely animal life. 



