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Those which are to be active, must have the means of 

 self-direction ; it would be fatal to the harmonies so justlv 

 guarded, should they shoot into space, sphereless and aim- 

 less, the restless life hurrying them to motion till they were 

 self-destroyed, and confusion carried everywhere. 



No, they shall have senses which shall inform the life within 

 of all internal things, through the retina of consciousness. All 

 impressions, then, of outward things, their qualities, etc., shall 

 be retained upon that retina, and shall be called experience 

 of life memory. This experience shall be to the principle 

 of life for a guide, and it shall have a power given it called 

 Reason, which is the highest result of the principle of life, acting 

 through organization, educated by the experience of the senses \ 



This education will be justly proportionate with the power 

 of the senses to inform : and therefore, in the precise ratio 

 of the sensitiveness, delicacy, and complexity of the senses, 

 will be the corresponding attributes of this educated life, 

 Eeason. 



It is harmonious that it should be so ! animal existence 

 is confined to a material earth. The forms and objects 

 co-existing there, are to it all that necessity demands. Its 

 powers, capabilities, wants, are filled and circumscribed by 

 these. The end and object of its being, first defined by organi- 

 zation, is carried to the ultimate highest creative aim or end, 

 by Eeason. The mite which builds its coral cell the savage 

 who piles his hut of bark, are equally guided by this prin- 

 ciple to the consummation of all their sheer physical necessi- 

 ties, and gregarious or social duties. 



The cause why Reason is not progressive in other forms 

 of animal life, as we see it to have been in man, we suppose 

 to be that, as man is a complex being, so the animal is a 

 simple one. 



The organic necessities of the bee led its experience 

 simply and directly to the discovery of a mathematical 

 law, by which the form and arrangement of its cells was 

 perfected : though it knows nothing of mathematics as an 



