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with an insect sharing the space of his cell, and which afterwards 

 may culminate in intensive mutual pathetical affections. Such 

 two united organic beings respect and honor each other's per- 

 sonality; and deducting from the feelings and desires of their 

 own being, they thereby understand what is due to each other. 

 Hence, the so constructed sympathetical affection stimulates each 

 individual to exercise efforts to render mutual benevolence. 



This is plainly demonstrated in the two above-illustrated 

 cases. The lamb and the ducks must have apparently been in- 

 ducted by their own intuition and pathetical perceptibility, that the 

 affections of their respective co-respondents were to them of sym- 

 pathetical and benevolent character; hence, reasoning from their 

 instinctive feelings, they subjected and yielded to the influences 

 of their friends, the lion and the fox. 



The alliances which have been sympathetically formed under 

 such conditions will grow gradually more and more intensive, 

 as then these manifestations are also subject to the laws of habits. 

 The bands which bind them sympathetically will seldom give 

 way, even if these animals have been given their liberty, and as 

 this has been frequently demonstrated, they retain their friend- 

 ship during their lifetime, till death breaks these ideal chains of 

 real friendship. 



Conclusion. In resuming these foregoing illustrated mani- 

 festations of the intercourse in the animal world, on this place, 

 it is done merely for the purpose to avoid liable erroneous 

 conclusions and false conceptions, which might be created by the 

 tendency of this work, which bases the principles of animal 

 understanding and the fundamental basis of intercourse express- 

 ively on the psychological ground. 



Therefore, it shall here be pointed out and be remarked 

 once more that the relation of psychological intercourse is a form 

 of communication upon which mainly the lower classes of 

 organic life are depending; that is, all those simple-formed or- 

 ganic beings whose organic structure is not fitted nor able to 

 modify and adopt forms of communication through which an 

 harmonious understanding and intercourse could be gained. I 

 shall allude, for instance, to certain germs in the lower organic 

 world, as protozoa, moluscles, vermes and other similar indi- 

 viduals. But, ascending the stages of organic evolution, where 



