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4[?] April 1817

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By the analysis which has been given some light, it is hoped, will be found to have been thrown upon these two connected scales. The operation of looking into his own mind, the operation to which antecedently to which must have been performed by the /a mans/ mind that of dividing itself polypus-like into two parts both remaining whole and perfect – the one acting in the ordinary course of action, the other employed in making observations on its neighbours as it acts – is an operation to which few minds are disposed, and as little as any those whose principal occupation consists in wading and struggling in the ocean of party politics. Hence it is that while of the mind of a man with the springs by which it is put and kept in action remain a secret to the man himself for want of attention bestowed upon it in this view the nature of the turn which it has taken and of the springs by which these turns have been produced no tolerably clear conception has been formed, yet to an observing bystander what has thus remained a secret /a riddle/ to the agent itself has along remained a riddle, the situation of it has presented itself without effort and without difficulty.