BEGINNINGS 111

one point here to which I "want to draw your
careful attention. The water in each tumbler
that is returned is not quite the same as when
it went out. It is coloured with the experience
that the horse has gained in its life. Each
tumbler is coloured with possibly different
experiences. None in any case would be exactly
the same, and this colour is mixed up, distribut-
ed in the whole of the bucketful of water, the
qualities developed and the experience gained
by each horse being shared by the whole of the-
group soul. Each tumblerful taken out of the
bucket in the future will be coloured by what
has been put in, but it will never be exactly the
same water in any tumbler, each horse's experi-
ence being the common property of all that
group of horses represented by the bucket.

This is, in fact, the explanation of inherited
instinct; for surroundings, altered habitat, make
no difference to inherited instinct, and as is well
known in the cases where eggs have been
changed and ducks hatched by an artificial hen
mother, in each case the birds retain the instinct
of their own kind.

Lower down in the scale of animals and in
insect life, millions of insects, we are told, are
attached to a single group soul, and that of the
vegetable life the same may be said. This