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Of course we do not deny that the child, who 

 from the first is potentially rational, as the brute is 

 not, passes through stages of mere sensitive and 

 irrational life and, as it were, lives the life of the 

 brute in miniature, just as its body in the embryonic 

 state sums up the evolutionary series. This is 

 excellently stated in Aristotle, who, while he con- 

 tends that Man is distinguished from brutes by 

 his rational and his moral nature, both of which, 

 like speech, are peculiar to him, yet admits that 

 as the brute has tywvr}, but not Aoyoc, so there are 

 traces *\vri " footsteps " is Locke's word of both 

 intellectual and moral qualities in the lower animals. 

 And he adds these remarkable words : 



" This is most clearly seen if we look at the case of 

 children. For in them we find the traces, and as it were 

 the germs, of what afterwards shall be ; indeed, if I may say 

 so, there is no difference between the mind of the child and 

 the mind of the brute at this period, so that we are not sur- 

 prised to find that they have some things which are the 

 same with, some things which resemble, and some things 

 which are analogous to, what is found in the brute." 



Nature, he says, makes its transitions little by little, 

 and the continuity of the process conceals the 

 border line rrj crvvex&.q \av9avti TO [jisOopiov CLVTMV. 

 It is this border line which Mr. Romanes has 

 set himself to discover, and he apparently sets 

 much store by the doctrine of Recepts. These 

 recepts are something between particular and 

 general ideas. They are the " blended " pictures 



