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COMPARATIVE ANATOMY.
NOW, from my proposition: that the Will is what
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Kant calls the thing in itself or the ultimate
substratum of every phenomenon, I had however not
only deduced that the will is the agent in all inner, un
conscious functions of the body, but also that the organism
itself is nothing but the will which has entered the
region of representation, the will itself, perceived in the
cognitive form of Space. I had accordingly said that, just
as each single momentary act of willing presents itself
at once directly and infallibly in the outer perception of
the body as one of its actions, so also must the collective
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volition of each animal, the totality of its efforts, be faith-
fully portrayed in its whole body, in the constitution of its
organism; and that the means supplied by its organisa
tion for attaining the aims of its will must as a whole
exactly correspond to those aims in short, that the same
relation must exist between the whole character of its
volition and the shape and nature of its body, as between
each single act of its will and the single bodily action
which carries it out. Even this too has recently been
recognised as a fact, and accordingly been confirmed a
posteriori, by thoughtful zootomists and physiologists from
their own point of view and independently of my doctrine :
their judgments on this point make Nature testify even
here to the truth of my theory.
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