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subject of locomotion is continued, and the motor principles are said to be appetite and mind; but mind in the sense rather of a perceptive or sentient than a purely intellectual faculty; and yet it is neither the centre of sensibility nor imagination, although it partakes of the nature of each of them. The imagination, which many are said to follow against judgment, is evidently the voluntary species of which man alone partakes; and the other, which is allotted to the lower animals, may be regarded as instinct. The mind, as a practical faculty, is to be distinguished from the theoretical or speculative intellect, which has for its object the discovery of truth, as the other has the preservation of the body. The argument is complicated, and made less apprehensible by the technicality and great precision of its wording: thus, , or object desired, is food, and appetite is the stimulus or feeling of hunger which compels to move; the practical