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HABIT AND INTELLIGENCE. 



[chap. X. 



worth, if we did not know- that it was the organ of 

 sight ? 



But this is to be understood with a very important 

 limitation. All that we can assert with any certainty 

 concerning purpose in organization, relates only to the pur- 

 pose of one part of an organism in relation to the other 

 parts, and to the whole organism. Concerning the purpose 

 of any organism in relation to the other organisms around 

 it, and to the universe at large, science gives no more 

 information than it does about purposes in the inorganic 

 creation. 



