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tail to fan himself and to keep off the flies. 

 But between these rudiments of intellectual 

 perception and the next step — that of 

 adapting and fashioning an instrument for a 

 particular purpose, — there is a gulf in which 

 lies the whole immeasurable distance between 

 Man and the brutes. In no case whatever 

 do they ever use an implement made by 

 themselves as an intermediate agency between 

 their bodily organs and the work which they 

 desire to do. Man, on the contrary, is so 

 constructed that in almost everything he 

 desires to do he must employ an agency 

 intermediate between his bodily organs and 

 the effect which he wishes to produce. But 

 this necessity, which in one aspect is a 

 physical disability, is correlated with a mind 

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