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placed in our second proposition — that the definiteness is 

 due to an agreement so to express the overflowing joyous- 

 ness begotten of vitality in full flood. But, if we do not 

 take the suggestion seriously, how is the definiteness to be 

 ammrint^ f™ o t« iu^ ««o« „t flumes and symmetrical 



or how delicate, we can, 

 3k on "laws of growth " 

 ithesis. But the jacana 

 prairie hen, can hardly 

 ' laws " or " tendencies." 

 3 be due ? 



. modest, if not the most 

 wer to this question is 

 m be no harm in a little 

 .'S are not regarded as 

 ible that imitation, and 

 o well described under 

 arded as a means, if not 

 ning, the definiteness of 

 re born into a society in 

 mg, or other modes of 

 r that sub-conscious and 

 to be a trait of animal 

 ;h-the-gap-ishness), they 

 eis their elders did before 

 md plastic. Their ways 

 munity in the heart of 

 ive neither the wit nor 

 iditions by new-fangled 

 d proceeded to exercise 

 doing, place themselves 



Vfixuoi\*o vixx> oirvicu ±xx<d, auu nvuiu prODaDly QIC TITTITI fl t*?d . 



Moreover, it is not improbable that a certain amount of 

 natural selection through elimination would accompany 



