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existence or its habits of action, by which it always 

 breeds true to its kind. 



11. The transmitted co-ordinating power is, there 

 fore, a capacity not dependent on experience. 



12. But this transmitted original co-ordinating 

 power in man contains the plan of his soul as well 

 as of his body. 



13. That plan has peculiarities which in man bring 

 into existence the intuitions and self-evident truths, 

 or what are called innate or connate ideas. 



14. The self-evident truths, the intuitions, the laws 

 of the necessary beliefs, including those of conscience, 

 are, therefore, not the result of experience, but origi- 

 nal parts of the transmitted co-ordinating power in 

 man, and independent of the co-ordinated organism. 

 [Applause.] 



