experiences--which are, in fact, his own--and only unconscious of the
extent of his own memories and experiences owing to their vastness
and already infinite repetitions.

Certainly it presents itself to us at once as a singular coincidence
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I. That we are MOST CONSCIOUS OF, AND HAVE MOST CONTROL OVER, such
habits as speech, the upright position, the arts and sciences, which
are acquisitions peculiar to the human race, always acquired after
birth, and not common to ourselves and any ancestor who had not
become entirely human.

II. That we are LESS CONSCIOUS OF, AND HAVE LESS CONTROL OVER,
eating and drinking, swallowing, breathing, seeing and hearing, which
were acquisitions of our prehuman ancestry, and for which we had
provided ourselves with all the necessary apparatus before we saw
light, but which are still, geologically speaking, recent, or
comparatively recent.

III. That we are MOST UNCONSCIOUS OF, AND HAVE LEAST CONTROL OVER,
our digestion and circulation, which belonged even to our
invertebrate ancestry, and which are habits, geologically speaking,
of extreme antiquity.

There is something too like method in this for it to be taken as the
result of mere chance--chance again being but another illustration of
Nature's love of a contradiction in terms; for everything is chance,
and nothing is chance. And you may take it that all is chance or
nothing chance, according as you please, but you must not have half