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is subject to decay? Custom is a second nature
which destroys the former. But what is nature? For is custom not natural? I
am much afraid that nature is itself only a first custom, as custom is a
second nature.
94. The nature of man is wholly natural, omne animal.[18]
There is nothing he may not make natural; there is nothing natural he may
not lose.
95. Memory, joy, are intuitions; and even mathematical propositions become
intuitions, for education produces natural intuitions, and natural
intuitions are erased by education.
96. When we are accustomed to use bad reasons for proving natural effects,
we are not willing to receive good reasons when they are discovered. An
example may be given from the circulation of the blood as a reason why the
vein swells below the ligature.
97. The most important affair in life is the choice of a calling; chance
decides it. Custom makes men masons, soldiers, slaters. "He is a good
slater," says one, and, speaking of soldiers, remarks, "They are perfect
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