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DUALITY OF THE MIND.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION-UNSETTLED STATE OF MENTAL PHILOSOPHY—A NEW INSTRUMENT FOR ITS INVESTIGATION-MIND AND SOUL.

THE spot of earth on which he stands seems to every man the centre of the world, as the highest point of the heavens is always immediately over his head. This feeling is one of the modifications of self-love, a principle which, like the law of gravitation, keeps each group of particles in its place, and the whole of the groups in harmonious combination and unity. It is through the influence of this universal sentiment that each single point in the wilderness of knowledge seems, to him who sets himself to its investigation, more important than all others, and thus excites an interest disproportioned perhaps to its intrinsic value. Without this extrinsic interest, however, few men would give themselves the continuous labour of examination and consideration; life indeed is not long enough to allow any individual to benefit mankind by the results of diffused researches into various departments of knowledge. By confining himself to a single topic, and pursuing it with zeal and perseverance, any man of ordinary capacity and acquirements may elicit new

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