Vestiges of the natural history of creation / [Anon].

  • Robert Chambers
Date:
1844
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Credit: Vestiges of the natural history of creation / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    face of God is reflected in the organization of man, as a little pool reflects the glorious sun. The affective or sentimental faculties are all of them liable to operate whenever appropriate ob- jects or stimuli are presented, and this they do as irresistibly and unerringly as the tree sucks up moisture which it requires, with only this exception, that one faculty often interferes with the action of another, and operates instead by force of superior inherent strength or temporary activity. For ex- ample, alimentiveness may be in powerful opera- tion with regard to its appropriate object, producing a keen appetite, and yet it may not act, in conse- quence of the more powerful operation of cautious- ness, warning against evil consequences likely to ensue from the desired indulgence. This liability to flit from under the control of one feeling to the control of another, constitutes what is recognised as free will in man, being nothing more than a vicissitude in the supremacy of the faculties over each other. It is a common mistake to suppose that the in- dividuals of our own species are all of them formed with similar faculties—similar in power and ten- dency—and that education and the influence of circumstances produce all the differences which. we
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