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Logically, an insect will subjectively reflect and analyze the stridu- 

 lating sounds, projected and addressed to it by another insect of 

 the same order; the female will reflect upon the stridulating 

 demonstration of the male the female will reflect upon no other 

 sounds except those indicating danger. The human voice will 

 probably sound to the insect as thundering sounds to man ; it may 

 be affected by it, but it remains indifferent in the same way as a 

 concert of a Mongolian band would sound to a European as a 

 meeting of pot and pan, and so conversely. 



CHAPTER VII. 



ON HABIT AND INHERITANCE THEIR RELATION TO THE SUBJECT. 



There is another form, although of a secondary order, which 

 completes the modus of intercommunication, and that is habit. 



The subjection, that is, the yielding of an organic being to its 

 own innate determining vital principles, the tendency of indi- 

 vidualization, is termed habit. The principles of emotional effects, 

 the maintenance of individuality, are not only inducted and 

 directed by its implied intellectual faculties to obtain a rational 

 individual existence. There are predominating feelings, repre- 

 senting merely a yielding to easiness and indolence to afford exer- 

 tion. Thus prevailing tendency is termed habitual. Now, in 

 order to avoid a liable confusion or an erroneous conclusion of the 

 last form, it is necessary to outline the essential being of habit, 

 so far as it relates to the subject. 



In linear progression, and parallel with the organic and 

 transcendental evolution, are growing and equally organized the 

 vital forces and dynamic energies, in order to sustain the organic 

 existence of the individual. Through these instinctively rational 

 organized forces manages the transcendental being, that is, the 

 soul, the basis of the physical structure. 



There are forces modified for plastical service, as growth and 

 construction; there are forces systematically modified for the 

 principles of generation and assimilation ; and there are also subtle 

 energies, forming the structure and executing the functions of 

 sensation. The specific modus of these vital energies is tending 

 to perpetuality, that is, the maintenance of the modified form, 



