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Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?