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ANDREWS. 



interrelation of function of local substance organs could pro- 

 duce activities which seem those of the "organism." In re- 

 lation to these substance organs and their functional activities, 

 the grosser organism patent to us, is passive. Even con- 

 sciousness is never more than accessory after the act, and has 

 power only by fixity of attention upon other processes which 

 it can stimulate to draft off opportunities from those it does 

 not wish to make recurrent or to emphasize. The organism 

 ill toto expresses a certain grouping of interrelated functions 

 and habits of and for the general continuous race substance. 

 Out of substance organs have been builded a race organ. TJie 

 organism expresses substance habits — bnt it viost surely does 

 not express all the habits of the -fuass zvhose liviits are neces- 

 sarily coincident ivith its own. 



And within the organism limits, the protoplastic substance 

 retains, one must now believe, all those protoplastic powers 

 which are seen in free Heliozoa — all those tactile and selec- 

 tive and sensitively irritable and contractile functions that 

 protoplasm exhibits when placed externally to cells, areas, or 

 masses. On this protoplastic substance the race habit de- 

 pends, and in it are rooted all other habits of organisms. 



Instincts. 



[150] Darwin has said, ^^If we suppose any habitual action to 

 become inherited — and I think it can be showtz that this does 

 sometimes happen — theji the resemblance between what origi- 

 nally zvas a habit and aji instiyict becomes so close as not to be 

 distinguished.'' This was not easy of proof along lines of 

 habits of animals, but along lines of substance habits the diffi- 

 culty becomes vastly lessened. As to go over the evidence 

 would be to trench upon facts and arguments reserved for the 

 forthcoming paper, I will ask the reader to bring those facts 

 cited in Heredity and in Habit into connection here, and limit 

 myself to the following brief description in terms of my 

 results. 



Instinct expresses a complex grouping of secondary substance 

 habits, and of internal substance relations which involve or com- 



