Excerpt from The Second Table of the Commandments: A Perfect Code of Natural Moral Law and of Fundamental Human Law and the Criterion of Justice These powers, common to man and brutes, although more perfect in man, could not, as we clearly perceive from the confined capacity of brutes, have been the basis Of the human system, unless another and greater power had been given to man. The creation of man, and his intellectual divergence from the merely instinctive capacity Of brutes, mark the epoch Of the introduction of Reason into the world, and Of its combination with the animal nature. Man uses his physical powers under the direction of and in vital union with his mental powers and thus he is enabled to fulfil the higher destiny in the world awarded to him than that Of the lower animals. From the appetites spring the two vital elements of human society; from one the human beings by whom the world is peopled; from the other, food by which their lives are sustained. The appetite of sex is the provision of Nature for maintaining a succession of human beings, and there are various and peculiar instincts, feelings, affections. 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.