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1908 Nov 10
Logic
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to make my motions ape life more perfectly, you cleverly
introduced a principle into my make up whereby every one of
them without exception is subjected to an automatic motion
of regulation, giving that critical effect you speak of, and
of course each such motion of the automatic regulator is, by
the same principle itself controlled in the same manner by
another motion. It was the circumstance that my being is
merely the being of an idea,--something consisting in
a capability of being represented independently of
whether or not has a capacity for representing it, that made
it possible, and easy too, for my creator to introduce that
principle into my constitution. By this endowment, although
I am absolutely subject to all your freaks, yet my consistent

1908 Nov 10
Logic
22

to make my motions ape life more perfectly, you cleverly
introduced a principle into my make up whereby every one of
them without exception is subjected to an automatic motion
of regulation, giving that critical effect you speak of, and
of course each such motion of the automatic regulator is, by
the same principle itself controlled in the same manner by
another motion. It was the circumstance that my being is
merely the being of an idea,--something consisting in
a capability of being represented independently of
whether or not has a capacity for representing it, that made
it possible, and easy too, for my creator to introduce that
principle into my constitution. By this endowment, although
I am absolutely subject to all your freaks, yet my consistent