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viously copied visual forms, exhibiting thereby a concrete state 

 of the transcendental being of the individual. The power of intro- 

 spective visuality, that is, the reflexibility, constitutes conscious- 

 ness; the power to reflect these innate visual forms exhibits 

 memory. 



Moreover, the thus constructed consciousness inducts or ex- 

 cites the intellect (soul) to meditation, that is, to contemplate 

 these ideal objects stored up in the introspecive periphery within; 

 furthermore, the intellect (soul), obedient to the motive of indi- 

 vidualization to maintain existence, concludes from these ideal 

 objects, viz., ideas, what supposedly is the most beneficial for the 

 individual welfare, that is, reasoning from cause and effect. 



Though, according to their anatomical structure, ants as 

 well as other insects, are not endowed with a cerebral organiza- 

 tion, analogous to the vertebrate kingdom, from which originates 

 the positive super-consciousness, they are reasoning merely in- 

 tuitively from the sub-consciousness, because the power of 

 reasoning intuitively, which also originates in the sub-conscious- 

 ness, renders equal service in the relation of economical affairs 

 and other emotional and sexual events, as well as the reasoning 

 and deducting power of the more objective super-consciousness 

 of the highest classes of the vertebrate order. 



Hence, concluding from this, it is obvious that ants and bees 

 manage certain accidental circumstances satisfactorily for the 

 best of their own welfare; and I think that this .explains and 

 solves the question of the rational transaction of ants and bees. 

 Of course, their reasoning faculty is limited and the power of 

 reflexibility not so much expanded, in compliance with the re- 

 stricted number of ideal objects stored within their transcendental 

 constitution; naturally, their reasoning and rational manifesta- 

 tions are very diminutive transactions in proportion to the verte- 

 brate world. 



Furthermore, though, according to the absence of a perfect 

 cerebral organization, which implies also the postulate of absolute 

 will power, by which an individual is capable to alterate the plasti- 

 cal tendency of vital energies, the insect is extremely subjected 

 to these spontaneous impulsive vital tendencies, favoring the laws 

 of habit and growth. Subsequently, the physical and pathetical 

 condition of the being remains their inherited individual forms 



