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coursing would have no existence. On the other 
hand, as that art is largely practised, it follows 
that greyhounds alone possess a number of mental 
powers, the existence of which, in any animal, is 
absolutely denied by the Quarterly Reviewer. 
Finally, what are the mental powers which he 
reserves as the especial prerogative of man? 
They are two, First, the recognition of “our- 
selves by ourselves as affected and perceiving.— 
Self-consciousness.” : 
Secondly. “The reflection upon our sensations — 
and perceptions, and asking what they are and 
why they are.—Reason.” = | 
To the faculty defined in the last sentence, the — 
Reviewer, without assigning the least ground for 
thus departing from both common usage and 
technical propriety, applies the name of reason. 
But if man is not to be considered a reasoning — 
being, unless he asks what his sensations and per- 
ceptions are, and why they are, what is a Hot-_ 
tentot, or an Australian “ black-fellow ” ; or what — 
the “swinked hedger ” of an ordinary agricultural — 
district? Nay, what becomes of an average — 
country squire or parson? How many of these 
worthy persons who, as their wont is, read the ~ 
Quarterly Review, would do other than stand 
agape, if you asked them whether they had ever _ 
reflected what their sensations and perceptions — 
are and why they are? a 
So that if the Reviewer’s new definition of rea-— 
