THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST. 



VOLUME THE FOURTH. 



ZOOLOGY. 



fURTHER REMARKS OIT AMMAL PSYCHOSIS. 

 By the Rev. J. WARDROP. 



(Continued from Vol. III., p. sSg.) 



it. OENSIBILITY or sensitive intelligence is a power of a 

 w3 different kind and peculiarly animal. Here the outer 

 nervous circle does not act mechanically by itself. The 

 different movements stimulate the inner circle, so as to excite 

 feeling or sensation, including sensitiveness to pain, and ideas 

 or rather images, and affections and emotions ; that is to say, 

 in this mode of action, the seat and essence of mind are reached. 

 It is impossible to interpret the actions of animals, in a good 

 many of their spheres of action, without ascribing to them 

 powers of an intelligent nature. As we know feeling, emotion, 

 ideas, and images in ourselves, so must we own them to be in 

 animals, — and that is, only as psychical and not simply as 

 organic functions. And, in sensibility, not only are these 

 capacities of mind aroused, but they intermediate and condition 

 the outgoing action. The outgoing movement in response to 

 the ingoing does not pass immediately through the central 

 union of the afferent and efferent nerves as in reflex action. 

 It starts from the seat of mental power as its immediate and 

 determining source, and thus gets the character not of me- 

 chanical, but of intelligent adaptation and purposiveness. The 



