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mon to the race. To follow these motives — to 

 be actuated by them is, therefore, natural. And 

 yet to follow these motives exclusively, may, and 

 generally does, lead to great evils, often to cala- 

 mities, sometimes to destruction. How, then, can 

 these motives be controlled ? Only by appealing 

 to other motives — to forces lying in the higher 

 regions of the mind, and placed there like the 

 forces of external Nature, to be at the disposal of 

 the Intelligence and the Will. 



Are, then, these higher motives not also natural — 

 are they above nature, are they supernatural ? It 

 would really seem as if this were the idea involved 

 in the distinction which is so vaguely drawn between 

 that which is said to be natural and that which is 

 said to be not natural — between Natural Law and 

 Positive Institution. Yet Reason, and Conscience, 

 and Fancy, and Imagination, and Belief, or whatever 

 other faculties may direct, wisely or unwisely, the 

 course of legislation, are all equally natural to Man. 

 They are all as much parts of his mental constitu- 

 tion as the desires and instincts to which the term 

 natural is usually confined. There is no extra- 

 vagance of the individual Will — there is no foil)' 



