188 MAN AND APES. 



Man being, as the mind of each man may 

 tell him, an existence not only conscious, but 

 conscious of his own consciousness; one not 

 only acting on inference, but capable of 

 analysing the process of inference ; a creature 

 not only capable of acting well or ill, but of 

 understanding the ideas " virtue" and " moral 

 obligation," with their correlatives freedom of 

 choice and responsibility — man being all this, 

 it is at once obvious that the principal part 

 of his being is his mental power. 



In nature there is nothing great but man, 

 In man there is nothing great but mind. 



We must entirely dismiss, then, the con- 

 ception that mere anatomy by itself can have 

 any decisive bearing on the question as to 

 man's nature and being as a whole. To solve 

 this question, recourse must be had to other 

 studies ; that is to say, to philosophy, and 

 especially to that branch of it which occupies 

 itself with mental phenomena — psychology. 



But if man's being as a whole is excluded 

 from our present investigation, man's body 



