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tions (generation), and then to thus established understanding 

 they are capable to work subjectively hand in hand, in perfect 

 harmony. 



Moreover, as a further evidence that certain animals, es- 

 pecially certain insects, are able to manifest in some cases very 

 remarkable rational transactions, although relating very little to 

 the subject, I shall allude to a certain kind of wasp, which is 

 hunting for spiders, beetles, caterpillars and similar kinds of in- 

 sects, using them for prey. But these wasps do not pursue them 

 in order to devour them immediately; they consider this prey 

 merely as objects of provision for their coming offsprings to be 

 feeded upon. 



When this wasp seizes a caterpillar, she penetrates her sting 

 with such an anatomical accuracy between the segments of the 

 body that its effect only paralyzes the victim and prevents it from 

 escaping. After this manipulation the paralyzed caterpillar is 

 dragged into the nest of the wasp and preserved in the living 

 state until it may be served as fresh food for the coming offspring. 



Now, this rational transaction could not be performed with- 

 out the faculty of reasoning power; that is, in this case reason- 

 ing intuitively. The wasp has not any anatomical knowledge of 

 these insects, gained by any modus of experience ; hence, the wasp 

 could have only acquired intuitively the knowledge of the ana- 

 tomical structure of the victim, and then reasoning from this 

 point, she is able to scope her efforts and calculate the effects with 

 minute accuracy. 



It is this the same power of intuitive reasoning, by which 

 organic beings, viz., male individuals, are reasoning from the 

 anatomical constitution of their respective mates, in order to adapt 

 such sound-producing organs, which are in compliance with the 

 susceptible faculty of the subject. 



REASONING BETWEEN DISTINCT CRIMINALS. 



Having in the preceding chapter delineated the manifestation 

 of intercourse and understanding, prevailing between individuals 

 of the same kind, I shall, in the present chapter, endeavor to illus- 

 trate the rational intercourse and mutual understanding between 

 individuals of very distinct species. 



To investigate the character of mutual affection and the 

 efforts to provide for the helpless weaker part, led Mr. Romanes 



