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and his saying had a certain amount of spaciousness, on account 

 of the magnitude of the bodies and distance* with which the stu- 



only an example of what an excellent writer has termed " the un- 

 conscious action of volition upon credence," and it is properly in 



may hope to exhibit, with clearness, the adaptations of plan pre- 

 figured and design executed. 



differs from both the physicist and the biologist. Unconfined like 

 the former, by the few simple relations by which movements in the 

 inorganic world are controlled, he may not only vary the form of 

 hi* analysis, almost at pleasure, making it more or less transcen- 



tions, apparently inconceivable in real existences, and then inter- 

 pret them into results quite as real as those of the legitimate 

 calculus with which he is working, but lying outside of its domain. 

 If biology can ever be developed in such manner that its results 



eeivahle (or imaginary as they are termed in mathematics) quan- 

 tities which musl be introduced when changes of form or structure 

 take place. Such will be analytical morphology, in its proper 



In the observation of the habits of inferior animals, we recog- 



accomplishment of definite purposes, we do not entirely compre- 

 hend. They are, in many instances, not the result of either the 

 experience of the individual, or the education of its parents, who 

 in low forms of animals frequently die before the hatching of the 



simple or complex, as directed by what we are pleased to call in- 

 stinct, as opposed to reason. Yet there is every gradation be- 

 tween the two. 



Among the various races of dogs, the companions of man for 

 pies, for many may be found in books with which you are familiar. 



