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tomical constitution could only be acquired by their innate intui- 

 tive intellect; and only owing to this, it can be able to adopt an 

 organ for the purpose of external (sensational) intercourse. 

 Furthermore, this knowledge is apparently not acquired during 

 their present time, but obviously they have perceived it through 

 inheritance in a rude form, and then during organic and pathetical 

 evolution gradually exerted. 



Now, then, the rational development of sound-producing 

 organs by small insects antecedently sets forth the presence of a 

 hearing sense, implied in the constitution of the females; and so 

 conversely, if the females were not endowed with a hearing sense, 

 the males would not adapt their physical structure to the use of 

 external intercourse. This fact will overthrow the opinion of 

 those who may not believe in the hearing faculties of the insects. 



The hearing faculty of the insects, as also of other organic 

 beings, is not acquired during the progress to maturity the 

 postulates of the individual organization in its primeval state 

 implies already the hearing faculty but during the morphological 

 evolution it has become; expediently exerted. The primeval 

 phase of the hearing faculty begins simultaneously with the 

 organization of individuality that is, the union of intellect and 

 body. 



The transcendental being of the individual, even of the 

 primeval state of organic life, requires the physical structure as 

 a basis for the transcendental and pathetical evolution. The body 

 represents the physical environment of the transcendental being 

 of the individual. Its normal condition, that is, the normal state 

 of mobility of the body, is determined by the ideal mobile capacity 

 of the soul, the transcendental being. This normal state repre- 

 sents repose and tranquility. Any influence which effects to bring 

 the body, the physical basis of the soul, out of the ideal normal 

 state, means to bring also the soul out of its ideal normal state 

 this influence will excite her to reflect upon. 



Friction, caused by gross matter ; vibration, caused by effec- 

 tive sounds ; ethers and other similar forms, are influences, capable 

 of affecting the sensitive disposition of the individual, especially 

 those of the lowest state of organic life. Now, taking only vibra- 

 tion, the effects of sounds, in relation to the subject, which affects 

 the body of those diminutive organic beings, the whole physical 



