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given them at their origination, simultaneously with the origina- 

 tion of the organic being. These forces act spontaneously and 

 independently from the intellect. The intellect and the pathetical 

 constitution are subjected to their influence during all phases of 

 organic existence, until a superior will power is becoming to that 

 degree exerted that the intellect, respectively, the transcendental 

 entity, is capable to reshape and alter the original tendency of these 

 vital forces. But so long as the transcendental entity, the soul, 

 is endowed with an inferior will power, the organic being is 

 extremely subjected to the impulsive effects of these vital forces 

 and dynamic energies. This subjective state of the organic 

 being, the yielding to these vital principles, is habit, and its ten- 

 dency is habitual. This manifestation marks the real animal life, 

 the lower organic kingdom, and distinguishes it from the beings 

 of the supreme organic life, where wisdom and spirituality are the 

 dominant rulers. 



But again, on the other hand, these implied vital energies, 

 representing the principles of natural laws, direct the animal to 

 the scope of development and perfection ; without these impulsive 

 and rationally exerted vital energies, organic beings of the lower 

 rank in life would drop off from the pathway of evolution. 

 Hence, in due obedience to these vital principles, the animal 

 always acts in compliance with nature. Through the aid of these 

 vital energies, all organic beings have instinctively and pro- 

 gressively developed their particular forms of physical manifesta- 

 tion, as also the modes of gestures and sound-producing organs 

 and other similar forms of demonstrative expression. Subse- 

 quently, according to the perpetuality of these vital energies, these 

 forms of demonstrative expression must also remain perpetual 

 and constant in their respective manifestation. 



Moreover, are these forms of vital tendencies in one way 

 gradually acquired by the individual itself during organic evolu- 

 tion, are they in some way acquired by the laws of inheritance. 

 The manifestations of inheritance depend upon the same laws 

 of life, viz., the principles of vitality. Hence, according to this, 

 it will create a uniformity of these vital manifestations among 

 the individuals, and especially of the same order. Naturally, 

 there will be also a uniformity of gestures and the modes of 

 demonstrative expression generally exhibited among the beings, 

 especially when related. 



