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actions are alike determined by the forces to which 

 their faculties are accessible. Where these are few 

 and simple, the resulting action is simple also ; 

 where these are many and complicated, the re- 

 sulting action has a corresponding variety. Thus 

 the conduct of animals is less capable of being 

 predicted in proportion as it is difficult or 

 impossible to foresee the nature or number of 

 the motive forces which are brought to bear 

 upon the Will. Man's Will is free in the same 

 sense, and in the same sense only. It is sub- 

 ject to Law in the same sense, and in the same 

 sense alone. That is to say, it is subject to 

 the influence of motives, and it can only choose 

 among those which are presented to it, or which it 

 has been given the power of presenting to itself. 



But in this last power we touch the secret of 

 that boundless difference which separates Man 

 from the highest of the animals below him. 

 There is such a gulf between the faculties of 

 his mind and those of the lower animals, that the 

 forces acting on the human spirit become, by 

 comparison, innumerable, and involve motives be- 

 longing to a wholly different class and order. He 



