Elements of Morality

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Excerpt from Elements of Morality: In Essay Lessons, for Home and School Teaching "Nothing in this world is single, All things, by a law divine, In one another's being mingle." 1. As soon as we are old enough to begin to think, What are we? and, What is this world into which we are born? a question like this may perhaps come into our minds, - "How is it that I, who seem to be a distinct living thing, should have no power of living in myself? I am not fixed to a piece of rock like a sponge, nor planted in the ground like a tree, I can think my own thoughts and move my body about where I please, and yet, if I were detached from what is outside of me, I should die, as surely as the sponge would die if torn from the rock, or the tree would die if uprooted from the soil." 2. The truth is, that this being, which each of us calls "I, " "myself, " is in part made up from what is outside of us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.