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former a feminine or passive, the latter a masculine or active principle; and

iii. Spirit-the Moral or Immortal principle, ruling through the Will, and breathed into Man by the Breath of God.”-Progression by Antagonism, pp. 2, 3.

9. On what authority does the writer assume that the moral is alone the Immortal principle-or the only part of the human nature bestowed by the breath of God ? Are imagination, then, and reason perishable? Is the Body itself? Are not all alike immortal; and when distinction is to be made among them, is not the first great division between their active and passive immortality, between the supported body and supporting spirit; that spirit itself afterwards rather conveniently to be considered as either exercising intellectual function, or receiving moral influence, and, both in power and passiveness, deriving its energy and sensibility alike from the sustaining breath of God-than actually divided into intellectual and moral parts? For if the distinction between us and the brute be the test of the nature of the living soul by that breath conferred, it is assuredly to be found as much in the imagination as in the moral principle. There is but one of the moral sentiments enumerated by Lord Lindsay, the sign of which is absent in the animal creation:-the enumeration is a bald one, but let it serve the turn-“Self-esteem and love of Approbation,” eminent in horse and dog; “Firmness,” not wanting either to ant or elephant; “Veneration,” distinct as far as the superiority of man can by brutal intellect be comprehended; “Hope,” developed as far as its objects can be made visible; and “Benevolence,” or Love, the highest of all, the most assured of all-together with all the modifications of opposite feeling, rage, jealousy, habitual malice, even love of mischief and comprehension of jest:-the one only moral sentiment wanting being that of responsibility to an Invisible being, or conscientiousness. But where, among brutes, shall we find the slightest trace of the Imaginative faculty, or of that discernment of beauty which our

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