From what has preceded it may, therefore, be inferred that organic behaviour may arise either through modifications occurring in the plastic tissues, or through variations having their origin in the germinal substance. Broadly speaking, however, we may regard as predominantly due to adaptation those congenital modes of behaviour and those organic responses which on their first occurrence are relatively definite in character, and which are directed to a biological end, for whose attainment the tissues have had no preparatory training; and we may regard as predominantly due to accommodation those responses which are, so to speak, learnt by the tissues in the course of individual life. Both are dependent on heredity, but in different ways. What the animal owes to heredity may, indeed, as I have elsewhere said,[16] be classified under two heads. Under the first will fall those relatively definite modes of behaviour which fit the animal to deal at once, on their first occurrence, with certain essential or frequently recurring conditions of the environment. Under the second head will fall the power of dealing with special circumstances as they arise in the course of a varied life. The former may be likened to the inheritance of specific drafts for definite needs which are sure to arise in the conduct of life; the latter to the inheritance of a legacy which may be drawn upon for any purpose as occasion may demand. If the need becomes habitual the animal may, so to speak, instruct his banker to set aside a specific sum to meet it as it arises. But this arrangement is a purely individual matter, dictated by experience, and in no wise enjoined by the original terms of the bequest. And both types are fostered by natural selection which develops (_a_) such congenital definiteness of response, and (_b_) such innate plasticity, as are advantageous under the conditions of existence; uniform conditions tending to emphasize the former, variable conditions the latter.