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of sensation, in order to induct the day of superconsciousness 

 (positive mind), the directions of its individual welfare the inner 

 voice, as it may be termed. 



Now, widely different to this stands intellectually the animal 

 kingdom. The animal, in correlation to its limited number of 

 personal necessities, is naturally not to that extent engaged in 

 objective mental transactions as man. Its mental powers are 

 not to that extent positive; consequently, their susceptibility is 

 more adapted to spontaneous inductions of instinctive ideas, com- 

 ing from the transcendental center within. This is the reason 

 that animals subject with ease to the laws of nature. 



Many a naturalist and psychologist will admit and corroborate 

 that the so-called instinct in many respects excels the intellectual 

 manifestations of the so much admired human intelligence. The 

 intellectual manifestations of the animal are induced and inducted 

 by the original idea or spontaneous motive of individualization, 

 which practically provides for the welfare and sound individuality. 

 Contrary to this acts man ; he is constantly induced and influenced 

 by the abstract ideas originating from the motives of worldly 

 happiness and the principles of society, respectively, the laws of 

 man. Man's mentality, objectively and extremely engaged in the 

 vortex of speculation, is therefore not susceptible to the spon- 

 taneous induction of his instinctive ideas; hence he is no more 

 becoming aware of his innate intellectual manifestation, which 

 would result very often for him in a better welfare. 



It has often been pronounced and it is also a prevailing 

 opinion that animals perform their actions unconsciously and 

 without reflection. This is, of course, an erroneous conception 

 and also a gross contradiction. Many persons are thus under 

 the impression of the empirical idea that consciousness is only 

 owing to them. They do not comprehend that consciousness is 

 a phase of intellect, subject to analyzation, as well as it is syn- 

 thetically constructed by ideas and power of reflexibility. The 

 question here is: Conscious of what? And how many objects 

 (figurative thought forms) the individual is conscious of. 



We must bear in mind that consciousness is a synthetical ideal 

 structure, composed of many ideas, respectively, figurative thought 

 forms, which are postulated upon the very original idea, that is, 

 the conception of the being of itself or self-consciousness the 



