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affections of the mind in the animal, the nature of the differ- 

 ence which must exist between those emotional affections in 

 man and the animal becomes evident. 



The will in man also is, in consequence of his self-con- 

 scious faculty, a will properly so-called, for it is, or ought to 

 be, determined or regulated by those higher or Divine prin- 

 ciples of thought and belief of which he is conscious. 



At this point we reach the solution of the question as to 

 the essence of humanity. With an animal body and instincts, 

 man possesses also a consciousness involving Divine truth in 

 its regulative principles. But along with this highly endowed 

 consciousness, the human being has been left free to act 

 either according to the impulses of his animal, or of his 

 higher principle. The actual history of humanity, of its 

 errors, its sufferings, and its progress, is the record of the 

 struggle between man's animal and Divine principle, and of 

 the means vouchsafed by his Creator for his relief* 



* The subjects discussed in this and the preceding Lecture, are, in some of 

 their relations, treated with greater fulness in Note VII. to the Lecture on 

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