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matics) quantities which must be introduced when changes of 
form or structure take place. Such will be analytical mor- 
phology, in its proper sense; but it is a science of the future, 
and will require for its calculus a very complex algebra. 
In the observation of the habits of interior animals we rec- 
powers of a rather high order, but also distinct traces of moral 
sentiments similar to those possessed by our own race. I will 
will reply that these qualities have been developed by human 
education ; but not so, there must have been a latent capacity 
in the brain to receive the education and to manifest the re- 
sults by the modification of the habits. Now it is because we 
When we attempt to observe animals belonging to another 
sub-kingdom, Articulata, for instance, such cases as bees, ants, 
termites, ete., which are built upon a totally different plan of 
structure, having no organ in common with ourselves, the 
difficulty of interpreting their intellectual processes, if they 
perform any, is sti ter. The purposes of their actions we 
can divine only by their results. But anything more exact 
than their knowledge of the objects within their scope, more 
ingenious than their methods of using those objects, more com- 
plex yet well devised than their social and political systems, 1t 
is impossible to conceive. 
