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looked at other times, or aesthetic judgments about their beauty ; 

 one feels no ideas about what movements he will make, but feels 

 himself make them, feels his body throughout. Self-consciousness 

 dies away. Social consciousness dies away. The meanings, and 

 values, and connections of things die away. One feels sense- 

 impressions, has impulses, feels the movements he makes ; that 

 is all." 



And after an illustration from such a game as tennis, Mr 

 Thorndike adds : — " Finally, the elements of the associations are not 

 isolated. No tennis-player's stream of thought is filled with free- 

 floating representations of any of the tens of thousands of sense- 

 impressions or movements he has seen and made on the tennis- 

 court. Yet there is consciousness enough at the time, keen con- 

 sciousness of the sense-impressions, impulses, feelings of one's 

 bodily acts. So with the animals. There is consciousness enough, 

 but of this kind." 



There is much in Mr Thorndike's monograph to which there is 

 not space to allude. He is weak in that historical sense which 

 gives continuity to the development of scientific interpretation, but 

 I regard his investigation as one of great promise, and believe that 

 its further prosecution will lead to other results not less important 

 than those which he here presents. Experimental work in this 

 field is sorely needed ; and Mr Thorndike has proved himself one 

 who is able and willing to carry it out. 



C. Lloyd Morgan. 



16 Canyxge Road, 



Ci.ifton, Bristol. 



