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scious (I do not mean self-conscious) choice which determined 

 originally the mode of reaction which is now instinctive. 



This position being established, the way would then be 

 open for the psychologist to construct and maintain a theory 

 of the origin of volition and cognition as developing out of a 

 system of organic behavior. This negative evidence, if it can 

 be found, will contribute to a constructive theory of the system- 

 atic development of mind as a progress from the simpler and 

 less organic to the higher and more organic. For intelligence 

 is both of these as compared with instinct. 



T. H. HAINES. 



