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Those which are to be active, must have the means of 
self-direction ; it would be fatal to the harmonies so justly 
guarded, should they shoot into space, sphereless and aim- 
less, the restless life hurrying them to motion till they were 
self-destroyed, and confusion carried everywhere. 
No, they shall have senses which shall inform the life within 
of all internal things, through the retina of consciousness. All 
impressions, then, of outward things, their qualities, etc., shall 
be retained upon that retina, and shall be called experience 
of life — memory. This experience shall be to the principle 
of life for a guide, and it shall have a power given it called 
Reason^ which is the highest result of the principle of life^ acting 
through organization^ educated hy the experience of the senses ! 
This education will be justly proportionate with the power 
of the senses to inform : and therefore, in the precise ratio 
of the sensitiveness, delicacy, and complexity of the senses, 
will be the corresponding attributes of this educated life, 
Eeason. 
It is harmonious that it should be so ! animal existence 
is confined to a material earth. The forms and objects 
co-existing there, are to it all that necessity demands. Its 
powers, capabilities, wants, are filled and circumscribed by 
these. The end and object of its being, first defined byorgani' 
zation, is carried to the ultimate highest creative aim or end, 
by Eeason. The mite which builds its coral cell — ^the savage 
who piles his hut of bark, are equally guided by this prin- 
ciple to the consummation of all their sheer physical necessi- 
ties, and gregarious or social duties. 
The cause why Eeason is not progressive in other forms 
of animal life, as we see it to have been in man, we suppose 
to be that, — as man is a complex being, so the animal is a 
simple one. 
The organic necessities of the bee led its experience 
simply and directly to the discovery of a mathematical 
law, by which the form and arrangement of its cells was 
perfected: though it knows nothing of mathematics as an 
