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higher stand-point, we should see that what is given us from without as science, under the form of mechanism, is given us from within as æsthetics or morals, under the form of free-will.

In our opinion, the progress of the present and of future sciences will enable us better and better to state this antinomy: it were rash to hope for its solution.

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