The reason is that we have never read for this purpose, we have never written for this purpose, so that we may in our actions use in a way conformable to nature the appearances presented to us; but we terminate in this, in learning what is said, and in being able to expound it to another, in resolving a syllogism, and in handling the hypothetical syllogism.

It is as kind and good natured a dog as you ever saw.

Silent as fate, as nature the immovable, he sat his place; his lithe body conforming involuntarily to the motion, to the play of muscles beneath his legs; yet as unconsciously as one breathes in sleep.

"Some natures the more pains a man takes to reclaim them, the worse they are."L'ESTRANGE: Johnson's Dict., w. Pains.

By transferring to nature the power of self-position or of being subject, Schelling exalts the drudge of the Science of Knowledge to the throne.