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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Still," said I, "even granting that your explanatory hypotheses hit or approach the truth; still what a terrible power you would assign to man's will over men's reason and deeds!" "Man's will," answered Faber, "has over men's deeds and reason, habitual and daily, power infinitely greater and, when uncounterbalanced, infinitely more dangerous than that which superstition exaggerates in magic.
"Still," said I, "even granting that your explanatory hypotheses hit or approach the truth; still what a terrible power you would assign to man's will over men's reason and deeds!" "Man's will," answered Faber, "has over men's deeds and reason, habitual and daily, power infinitely greater and, when uncounterbalanced, infinitely more dangerous than that which superstition exaggerates in magic.
Thus, even in these decried 'private' motives, which actuate all men these universal natural instincts, which impel men yet more intensely, by the concentration of the larger sensibility, and the faculty of the nobler nature of their species, to seek their own private good, even in these forces, which, unenlightened and uncounterbalanced, tend in man to war and social dissolution, or 'monstrous' social combination, even in these, the scientific eye perceives the basis of new structures, 'constructions according to true definitions, in which all the ends that nature in man grasps and aspires to, shall be artistically comprehended and attained.
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