46 SPECIES NOT 



possessing individual and distinctive characteristics. 

 No one of its states or conditions constitutes 

 species; neither the perfect insect nor the pupa, 

 nor the larva, nor the ovum, fulfil in themselves 

 the conception involved in this term, but simply 

 represent the various relations the individual main- 

 tains to physical and animated nature, and during 

 the continuance of which its structural and pe- 

 culiar biography is written. 



The perfect being is the temporary expression 

 of a thought, or conception involved in the series 

 of actions which constitute in their entity a special 

 and definite creation, and in this state has reached 

 the acme of its perfectibility, a point beyond which 

 it cannot pass; but after a variable period its 

 organic part is broken up, and resolved again 

 into the simple or primary elements of matter. 

 The species, or the thought however does not 

 cease to exist during the process of organic dis- 

 integration of the individual, and previously to 

 its disappearance or death, it represents its special 

 organism, or rather its species, by means of an 

 ovum, in which the organic actions destroyed in 

 the previous representative, are recommenced, and 

 again carried through a series of changes or states 

 to the point of its previous organic perfection ; 

 commencing in the simplest organic state, and 

 continually returning to renew a series of pre- 

 determined special 9 developments. We have in 

 species a cycle of persistent ceaseless actions, re- 

 volving in their narrow orbit, with all f/te indica- 

 of dcri-ijn, and with comparatively as much 



