Difficult as it may be to earmark the items of the organic bequest--to say that, of the sum of energy expended in any given case of organic behaviour, so much is due to a specific draft definitely assigned in heredity for this particular purpose, and so much is contributed from the general legacy of innate plasticity,--it none the less conduces to clear thinking to emphasize the logical distinction between them, so long as it is steadily borne in mind that logical distinction does not imply biological separation. The animal, with all its varied modes of behaviour, is an organic whole, and as an organic whole it has been developed from the fertilized egg. The very same tissues which exhibit congenital modes of behaviour are capable also of acquiring new responses and playing their part in accommodation. We have not one set of organs which are the products of variation and another set which result from modification. Our study would no doubt be simplified if this were the case; but it is not so. And we must take the animal as we find it, presenting varied behaviour of complex origin. Even the reflex nervous centres, which are concerned in responses so automatic as to suggest a stereotyped structure of distinctively germinal origin, are also, as we saw at the close of the last section, in close touch with those centres of control which are associated with the supreme power of accommodation arising from the possession of consciousness. CHAPTER II _CONSCIOUSNESS_ I.--THE CONSCIOUS ACCOMPANIMENTS OF CERTAIN ORGANIC CHANGES