ANIMAL SENSATION AND PERCEPTION. G7 



personality is infused and transformed into each of 

 them with more or less intensity and vigour ; the 

 phenomena are perceived by each individual just as 

 far as he assimilates them, and he is constantly as- 

 similating himself to them. His communication with 

 the external world is in proportion with its internal 

 reflection on himself, and he understands just as 

 much as his own nature enables him to grasp. 



A careful consideration therefore shows that the 

 conditions of animal knowledge consist in endowing 

 the phenomena and objects of nature with conscious- 

 ness and will. I think that this truth will prove a 

 certain guide and beacon in the interpretation of the 

 origin of myth and science in man. 



