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behaviour in a specific manner, and that a melody or a 

 specific phrase you hear may do the same, in order to give 

 you a concrete instance of what our analysis expresses 

 more abstractly. 



And then the individualised stimulus of actions has an 

 effect that is individualised also. There are many cases in 

 the inorganic world where the same thing happens, and yet 

 in spite of that there is a great difference at the first glance 

 between the Inorganic and the Organic in this field. A 

 seal with specific initials may also be called an individualised 

 stimulus or at least cause, and if it is pressed into hot 

 sealing-wax the effect will be individualised also : but the 

 two individualisations are of exactly the same kind in this 

 case. That is not true in the individualisations of cause 

 and effect appearing in action : the one is individualised in 

 .a specific manner, but the other is individualised quite 

 differently. 



In more technical language we may state the result of 

 our provisional analysis as follows. Besides the principle 

 .of the " historical basis of reacting," there is another 

 fundamental principle concerned in actions, when considered 

 as bodily processes in nature ; this second fundamental 

 principle may appropriately be called the principle of " indi- 

 viduality of correspondence " between stimulus and effect. 



We now in the first place have to study more fully in 

 what the individuality of correspondence in acting really 

 consists, and it is here that the interpenetration of our first 

 and our second principle, spoken of already, will become 

 apparent. For the individualisation of the acting effect, 

 though dependent on because corresponding to the 

 individuality of the cause, is at the same time found to 



