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for assistance or advice, and presently again advances to the edge. No; it 
will not do. He recalls to mind the division of space into yards, feet, and 
inches, and endeavours to apply it without a rule to the smooth surface of 
the water. 
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“Thus, step by step, the mind of the man measures the distance, and 
assures him that it is a little beyond what he has hitherto attempted ; yet 
will not extra exertion clear it? fur, having once approached the brink, 
shame and the dislike of giving up pull him forward. He walks hastily 
twenty yards up the brook, then as many the other way, but discovers no 
more favourable spot ; hesitates again ; next carefully examines the tripping 
place, lest the turf, undermined, yield to the sudden pressure, as also the 
landing, for fear of falling back. Finally he retires a few yards, and pauses 
a second andruns. Even after the start, uncertain in mind and but half 
resolved, it is his own motion which impels the will, and he arrives on the 
opposite shore with a sense of surprise. 
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“ Now comes the dog, and note his actions; contrast the two, and say 
which is instinct, whichis mind. The dog races to the bank—he has been 
hitherto hunting in a hedge and suddenly misses his master—and, like his 
lord, stops short on the brink. He has had but little experience in jumping 
as yet; water is not his natural element, and he pauses doubtfully. He 
looks across earnestly, sniffs the air as if to smell the distance, then whines 
