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CHAPTER II. First Steps and First Fluctuations

The Life of Reason: the Phases of Human Progress · George Santayana — chapter 3 of 115 · ~43 words · public domain

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FIRST STEPS AND FIRST FLUCTUATIONS

Dreams before thoughts.—The mind vegetates uncontrolled save by physical forces.—Internal order supervenes.—Intrinsic pleasure in existence.—Pleasure a good, but not pursued or remembered unless it suffuses an object.—Subhuman delights.—Animal living.—Causes at last discerned.—Attention guided by bodily impulse. Pages 48-63

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