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works <>t' mail s hands, from a Mint implement i" 

 a cathedral or a chronometer ; and it is because 

 it is true, that we call these tilings artificial, 

 term them works >[ art. or urtiticc, by \\ay of 

 distinguishing them from the products of the cosmic 

 process, working outside man, which we call 

 natural, or works of natur. The distinction thus 

 drawn Let ween the works of nature and those of 

 man, is universally recognised: and it is, as I 

 conceive, both useful and justifiable. 



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 No doubtv it may be pioperh urged that***? 



the operation of human em i-\ and intelligence,^ 

 which has brought into existenee and maintains 

 the garden, by what I have called "the horticul- 

 tural pro. strictly speaking, part and pan-el 

 of the cosmic process. And no one could more 

 nadily agree to that proposition than I. In fact, 

 1 do not know that any one ha> taken mon 

 pains than I have, during the last thirty years, to 

 insist upon the doctrine, so much reviled in the 

 early part of that period, that man, physical, 

 intellectual, and moral, is as much a part of 

 nature, a- purely a product of the cosmic process, 

 as the humblest weed.' 



But if, following up this adnns>io|j. it is urged 



1 See "Man's Place in Nature," Collected Essays, vol. vii., and 

 i! 0u the Struggle for Existence in Human Society "(1888), below. 



