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cessary conditions for continued existence. In designing and 
framing an animal structure, the means for stimulating all the 
faculties required at each stage of its existence, would be intro- 
duced in its bodily constitution. Thus the operations, usually 
called instinctive, would result from a predetermined structure, 
Specially designed to stimulate the particular faculties exercised. 
The materialized ideals would determine which faculties would be 
Most active at each stage of growth and in each species of animals. 
he views now presented are based entirely on the conceptions 
of matter and its constitutional forces, which inorganic masses 
constrain us to adopt. It cannot be too distinetly stated that 
a definite meaning when in mechanics, but no one can de- 
fine a vital force. It is too mysterious, fickle, evasive, and ille- 
gitimate to permit a clear conception or definition. When an or- 
®ehvenience in cloaking ignorance. So far as we know, no 
cule is ever moved, except by a real mechanical force, nor 
Ndeed can be, on account of its inertia. ‘Thongh our muscles 
Where the nerves centralize into one subtle th 
actually exhibited in formalizing 
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