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Excerpt from Colomba and Carmen: Translated From the French of Prosper MrimeOnly, though we are automates autant qu'esprit, as Pascal tells us, it is useless to expect that what is auto matic in us should remain invariable and unconditioned. If life could be lived on a plan, and for such men on such a plan, if first impulses and profound passions could be kept entirely out