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and adapt them more to be serviceable for present conditions, if 

 necessary. 



This determining stability of these vital tendencies, which 

 perform the mobile functions of demonstrative expression, con- 

 stitutes essentially also the basis of inheritance. The stable ten- 

 dency of these vital and dynamic functions, in co-operation with 

 the associated plastical faculties, mold the physical and pathetical 

 constitution of the offspring ; that is, in other words, the transcen- 

 dental entity (soul) of the parent being impresses its signature 

 of individuality upon the individuality of the offspring; it re- 

 ceives, simultaneously with its own origination, the same trans- 

 cendental and physical peculiarities of the parent. 



This establishes a uniformity of vital and physical functions 

 between parent and the offspring ; naturally, any manifestation of 

 these life functions, exhibited by the parent being, will be per- 

 ceived and understood by the offspring, which instinctively and 

 intuitively is reasoning from its own analogous individual consti- 

 tution. Although the intellect of the offspring may perhaps, for 

 the present time, not sufficiently be capable to perceive and com- 

 prehend to full extent the opposite (parent) manifestation, yet 

 the impulsive tendency of its own spontaneous vital and pathetical 

 manifestations will its intellect the scope and principles of these 

 transactions. 



Hence, the offspring, reasoning intuitively from its own indi- 

 vidual constitution, will also subjectively reflect upon these in- 

 fluences, projected and addressed to him by the parent being in 

 the transactions of daily life, because though the postulates of 

 these intercurrent manifestations are related to each other, are 

 thus consequently also the effects of these tendencies the same. 

 Naturally, the offspring will understand instinctively the princi- 

 ples of these transcendental or psychological, as well as the 

 physical manifestation, of its parent being, as well as in return 

 the parent will understand the similar transactions of the off- 

 spring. 



Now, coming again to the subject. The offspring, having 

 thus inherited all the individual peculiarities of the parent, has 

 then also inherited the particular modes of the parent's demons- 

 trative expression, serving for the purpose of intercommunica- 

 tion and mutual understanding, such as poses, gestures and forms 



