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The pleasures of fancyand imagination, and social con. Verse, man is constituted a speculative being; be con templates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive, indifferent gaze, as a set of pheno mena in which he has no further interest than as they affect his immediate situation, and can be ren dered subservient to his comfort, but as a system disposed with order and design. He approves and feels the highest admiration for the harmony of its parts, the skill and efiiciency of its contrivances. Some of these which he can best trace and under. Stand he attempts to imitate, and finds that to a certain extent, though rudely and imperfectly, he can succeed, in others, that although he an com prehend the nature of the contrivance, he is totally destitute of all means of imitation; - while in others, again, and those evidently the most important, though he sees the effect produced, yet the means by which it is done are alike beyond his kn.
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The pleasures of fancyand imagination, and social con. Verse, man is constituted a speculative being; be con templates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive, indifferent gaze, as a set of pheno mena in which he has no further interest than as they affect his immediate situation, and can be ren dered subservient to his comfort, but as a system disposed with order and design. He approves and feels the highest admiration for the harmony of its parts, the skill and efiiciency of its contrivances. Some of these which he can best trace and under. Stand he attempts to imitate, and finds that to a certain extent, though rudely and imperfectly, he can succeed, in others, that although he an com prehend the nature of the contrivance, he is totally destitute of all means of imitation; - while in others, again, and those evidently the most important, though he sees the effect produced, yet the means by which it is done are alike beyond his kn.
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