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consciousness, in virtue of which it must cease to exist, when 

 no longer supplied with the conditions on which its activity 

 and faculties may be exercised through the instrumentality of 

 its corporeal vehicle. 



10. As the instinctive consciousness, the corporeal struc- 

 ture, and the geographical area of an animal species, are 

 three co-ordinate elements in its specific constitution, it is 

 evident that any one of these elements can only be efficiently 

 investigated when the other two elements are fully repre- 

 sented in the question. 



11. By this comprehensive method, applied to the investi- 

 gation of the structure of an animal, we are enabled to see 

 how the body of an animal, although complete or fully fitted 

 to serve as the instrument of the animal's instinctive conscious- 

 ness towards the fulfilment of the purpose of its creation, 

 may, nevertheless, be incomplete as regards the type of animal 

 structure on which it is formed. We express this technically 

 when we say, that the structure of an animal is teleologically 

 complete ; but morphologically incomplete. It is the object 

 of this course of lectures to indicate the grounds on which 

 the human body is to be viewed, not only as teleologically, 

 but also as morphologically complete. In this twofold cor- 

 poreal completeness we shall, I believe, find a structural 

 characteristic, which, along with his possession of a higher and 

 distinct form of conscious principle, leaves no place for man 

 in any conceivable arrangement of the animal kingdom. 



12. The further elucidation of the relative position of man 

 to the animal kingdom, involves a closer examination of the 

 nature of animality. 



IB. If we are correct in assuming that the corporeal 

 structure of an animal is merely the instrument of its instinc- 

 tive consciousness, then it must be to this instinctive con- 

 sciousness that we must look for the essential characters of 

 animality. 



