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to induce him to fetch the book.
The dog's relation to the book was more prominently dualistic yet the whole significance and intention of his fetching it was to obey me.
In all action governed by reason such genuine triplicity will be found; while purely mechanical actions take place between pairs of particles.
A man gives a brooch to his wife.
The merely mechanical part of the act consists in his laying the brooch down while uttering certain sounds and her taking it up.
There is no genuine triplicity here; but there is no giving either.
The giving consists in his agreeing that a certain intellectual principle shall govern the relations of the brooch to his wife.
The merchant in the Arabian Nights threw away a date-stone which struck the eye of a ginniy.
This was purely mechanincal and there was no genuine triplicity.
The throwing and the striking were independent of one another.
But had