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LAWS OF MULTIPLICATION. 



whicjli conduct more rapidly, or an increased number of tubes, 

 may cause a larger absorption of heat from the burning mass 

 or the h&t gases it gives off; and the extra steam generated 

 by this extra heat, will, as before, augment both the motive 

 force and the emission through the safety-valve. And this 

 last case of coincident variation, is parallel to the case with 

 which we are here concerned — the augmentation of indi- 

 vidual expenditure and of reproductive energy, that may be 

 caused by a superiority of some organ on which the utilizing 

 or economizing of materials depends. 



Manifestly, therefore, an increased expenditure for Genesis, 

 or an increased expenditure for Individuation, may arise in 

 one of two quite different ways — either by diminution of the 

 antagonistic expenditure, or by addition to the store which 

 supplies both expenditures ; and confusion results from not 

 distinguishing between these. Given the ratio 4 to 20, as 

 expressive of the relative costs of Genesis and Individuation, 

 and the expenditure for Genesis may be raised to 5 while the 

 expenditure for Individuation is raised to 25, without any 

 alteration of type ; mereh' by favourable circumstances or 

 superiority of constitution. On the other hand, circimstances 

 remaining tlie same, the expenditure for Genesis Tiay be 

 raised from 4 to 6, by lowering the expenditure for Indi- 

 viduation from 20 to 19 : which change of ratio may be 

 either functional and temporary, or structural and per- 

 manent. And only when it is the last does it illustrate that 

 inverse variation between degree of evolution and degree of 

 procreative dissolution, which we have everywhere seen. 



§ 370. There is no reason to suppose, then, that the laws 

 of multiplication which hold of other beings, do not hold oi 

 the human being. On the contrarj', there are special facta 

 which unite with general implications, to show that these 

 laws do hold of the human being. The absence of direct 

 evidence in some cases where it might be looked for, we find 

 fully explained when all the factors are taken into account. 



