PART I. 



PRINCIPLES OF ANIMAL UNDERSTANDING. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE FUNDAMENTAL BASIS OF INTERCOURSE. 



The constitution of an 'organic being consists essentially of 

 two different parts: the physical and the psychological. The 

 physical part contains the principles of sensation and the various 

 forms of dynamic forces and plastical energies. Every form of 

 energy and principle of motion is tending to exert expedient 

 instrumentality of power and sense. The psychological part 

 involves the principles of the soul, their nature being termed 

 emotion and mentality. 



Hence, soul and mentality constitute the transcendental entity 

 of the organic being. From their center are emerging the affects, 

 known as love, hatred and the feelings of pain and pleasure. The 

 psychological constitution of the organic being is furthermore 

 adaptable and susceptible to two different pathetical tendencies, 

 which are objectively diametrical to each other; one is the sym- 

 pathetical and represents benevolence and love; the other is the 

 anti-pathetical, and represents selfishness and hatred. 



In compliance with natural law, that is, the spontaneous and 

 absolute evolution of life and the innate transcendental principles, 

 the organic being is brought into its individual existence. This 

 process is termed individualization. Moreover, simultaneously 

 with the first step into individual existence are beginning the 

 primeval states of feelings and intellectual manifestations, postu- 

 lated fundamentally on the predominating feelings of pleasure to 

 exist, that is, the pleasant feeling implying the desire to maintain 

 existence. 



Furthermore, with the coming into organic existence, the 

 intellect (the soul) of the being must simultaneously manifest 

 itself in correlation with the linear progression of physical develop- 

 ment, also a progression of comprehension and objectivity. This 

 must naturally increase the intensity of the want and pleasant 

 feeling to maintain the existence of individuality. 



