V. 



UNIVERSALITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND PAIN* 



"It is my faith that every flower that blows 

 Enjoys the air it breathes!" ^ 



Wordsworth. 



It is the glory of modern science to have 

 shown that the phenomena of the universe are 

 capable of being grouped into classes and sub- 

 classes, and that through all the ramifications 

 runs an essential nexus, or genetic association. ^^ 

 In the organic world the development of ^ nature 

 plants and animals has been shown to be 

 governed by similar laws for both, and their 

 special ways of maintaining the funderment- 

 al characteristics of their existence is being 

 found more and more to be based upon like 

 properties. 



In the following pages the writer hopes to 

 present a generalization that throws a some- 

 what different light upon the life of plants 



*Read before the Parlor Club, an organization devoted to 

 literary and scientific culture; Lafaj-ette, Ind., Sept. 20, 1896. 



