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 consciousness, will, motion, the bias of habit, and an unquenchable desire for association and aggregation. They become conjoined, numerically and morphologically, in progressive grades of complexity, originating by one kind of alliance the chemical elements which constitute the organic world, and by another the vital elements, which form the protoplasmic basis of animal and plant life. The organic kingdom rests upon the inorganic, and preys upon it, evolving