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and other vital movements of the lower animals should 

 be regular than that the movements of the heavenly 

 bodies themselves should be regular. The case js too 

 wide to be brought within the scope of unconscious 

 cerebration, or any other mode of automatism, and to 

 account for it in any measure satisfactorily nothing 

 less will serve than to suppose that the phenomena 

 of instinct are effects of a force which is as general as 

 that of gravity, a force which may comprehend that of 

 gravity, a force in which that which is vital and that 

 which is physical may find a common centre. So it 

 may be. And if so, then it follows that traces of unity 

 are not wanting in the phenomena of instinct. 



