for ages and ages, till this class or species may under certain cir- 

 cumstances be extinguished. 



Now, ants and bees are organic beings which live in a state 

 of social organization. This implies that, in order to maintain 

 its perfect shape, every individual is impelled to contribute its 

 share of work and effort to the communal welfare. This relation 

 requires the modus of conference, viz., to manifest an intercom- 

 munication between the members in order to effect a mutual 

 understanding. 



Now, if every individual joining this organization were act- 

 ing automatically, that is, without reflexibility, reasoning and 

 constructing intellectual powers, the whole movement of the or- 

 ganization would resemble much of a clockwork if each one, 

 independent from the other, would act mechanically and blindly 

 follow its spontaneous impulse, received at the very moment of 

 origination, what would be the consequence? It would result 

 surely a confusion within the organization in cases of different 

 and mixed affairs, which, in order to straighten them out, requires 

 the corresponding efforts of two or more individuals. Firstly, 

 reasoning from each others' affection and motivity; secondly, 

 reasoning from cause and effect concerning the related affair; 

 and, finally, the rational corresponding and combined efforts of 

 every participated individual to proceed in order to overcome the 

 difficulty crossing their road. But it has frequently been observed 

 how ants have managed difficult situations through combined 

 efforts there is no place for a blind-working or mechanical la- 

 borer; then, if every individual would resemble largely a wheel 

 in a clock, one individual woulcl be impelled to stop, if the other 

 did not correspond with him; and finally, no success could be 

 effected to manage any form of accidental difficulties. 



But a more mechanical feature represents the whole func- 

 tion of generation, because, as the principles of generation are 

 based directly on the stabile, plastical vital energies, and being in 

 their present form inherited from the progenitors, inducts and 

 impels the intellect (soul) to minute obedience. Hence, owing 

 to the faculty of thought transference and intuitive susceptibility, 

 every related organic being (concerning individuals of lower or- 

 ganic world) perceives intuitively from the other fellow being 

 the similar forms and principles of these very same vital ques- 



