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184 the given, the natural, the unconscious man, a passive creature throughout all the modifications of his Being. At our second step we observed an act of antagonism or freedom taking place against sensation, and the other passive conditions of his nature, as we have yet more fully to see: and at our third step we found that man in virtue of this antagonism had become "I." These three great moments of humanity may be thus expressed. 1st, The natural or given man is man in passion, in enslaved Being. 2d, The conscious man, the man working into freedom against passion, is man in action. 3d, The "I" is man in free, that is, in real personal Being.