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is the number and the nature of the indications in the sensed 

 world to which the animal reacts. Thus far, we have been 

 able to group indications only according to the forms of our 

 own attention. But by realising that the sense-organs of the 

 higher animals correspond to this grouping, we are put in a 

 position to go further ; by anatomical study of the lower 

 animals, we can now undertake to group their indications also, 

 and this even when we come across sense-organs that are quite 

 unfamiliar to us. 



The most important advance, however, lies in the follow- 

 ing conclusion. If the laws manifested in the forms of our 

 attention (which is the deciding factor for the appearance- 

 world of our own subject) can be recognised not only in the 

 shape of our own body, but also in the shape of the bodies of 

 other subjects of whose attention-forms we know nothing, 

 then this indicates that the work of fashioning by the mark- 

 signs is not determined purely by our own subject, but is 

 super-subjective. This means that we are on the track of a 

 control by Nature pointing to a unity even higher than our 

 own apperception, in which otherwise we must see the final 

 unity. 



The fact that the forms of our attention find expression 

 in the conformation of our own frame is sufficient to suggest 

 that there is a factor which uniformly determines the activity 

 both of our consciousness and of our body. It is not enough 

 to speak of a parallelism between mental and bodily processes ; 

 an expression like this loses its sense when we are dealing 

 with a comparison between intensive and extensive forms, for 

 such forms are never parallel to one another. On the other 

 hand, we may speak of identical laws, which express them- 

 selves both in intensive and extensive forms. 



