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of itself for the feeding process, other 

 portions for the reproductive process, other 

 portions again for sensory processes, but 

 retaining the protective sense of pain almost 

 everywhere ; until the spots sensitive to 

 ethereal and aerial vibrations which, arriv- 

 ing as they do from a distance, carry with 

 them so much valuable information, and 

 when duly appreciated render possible per- 

 ception and prediction as to what is ahead 

 until these sensitive spots have become 

 developed into the special organs which we 

 now know as the " eye " and the " ear." 

 Then, presently, the power of communi- 

 cation is slowly elaborated, speech and 

 education begin, and the knowledge of the 

 individual is no longer limited to his own 

 experience, but expands till it embraces the 

 past history and the condensed acquisition 

 of the race. And thus gradually arises a 

 developed self-consciousness, a discrimination 

 between the self and the external world, and 

 a realisation of the power of choice and 

 freedom, a stage beyond which we have 



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