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body in which it is enclosed, but it will not 

 be able to escape. All its phenomena will be 

 internal and its influence on the world beyond 

 must be through the agency of the outer body 

 in which it lies buried. There would be 

 two beings partly united, in one of whom 

 growth, and in the other reproduction, is domi- 

 nant. The former would make up the mass of 

 the body; the latter would be mainly nerves 

 and head. The new parts are due to germs 

 enclosed, and transformed into more or less 

 specialized parts. 



The outer body represents a tendency 

 towards mass and bulk; the inner body is a 

 struggle of germs to break forth, and of the 

 effects of the failure to do this. All the phe- 

 nomena of sex life are repeated again and 

 again, but the ultimate end is not reached 

 because the germs of the other sex can never 

 reach the enclosed ovary. Consciousness, in 

 its primary form, is aroused by the irritation 

 and stimulation accompanying the creation of 

 sex products. Not memory nor will, as we 

 know them, is the first product of conscious- 

 ness ; it is visualization fancy. The visuali- 



