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Will are still in use. Both these kinds of action 

 are rendered possible by the use of means : but it 

 is only in the case of one of them that those 

 means are placed at the bidding of the Will. 

 Yet it is not Experience which teaches us how to 

 use those means. It is purely Instinct or Intuition. 

 We are not even conscious of the very existence 

 of the means which we employ, and the profound- 

 est researches of Science do not even yet give us 

 the faintest notion what their ultimate nature is. 

 No experience whatever is required to teach a 

 child how to extend its limbs or how to exert 

 its voice. Nevertheless, neither of these things 

 can be done except through the use of means. 

 The only difference between these actions and 

 actions of a more complicated kind is, that the ap- 

 propriate means are resorted to and employed by 

 Intuition. The Will which moves the limbs, and 

 moves them through the use of a complicated 

 machinery, is born with the organism of which that 

 machinery forms a part, and has an instinctive 

 knowledge how to use it. Now, it is against the 

 analogy of Nature to suppose that this great class 

 of facts respecting the powers of the Body are 



