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given by these horses) cannot be reasoned or conscious, 

 but are of the metapsychic and subconscious order. I 

 think it needless to insist on these and analogous facts 

 known to all specialists of the subconscious. 



Von Hartmann has already pointed out the similarity 

 between instincts and supernormal manifestations in the 

 case of presentiments, second-sight, and clairvoyance. 

 Instinct, he remarks, and the unconscious, intrude 

 their results on consciousness in each case with the 

 same suddenness and precision. 



To sum up, the final results of the analysis of animal 

 instinct are, that it is of the subconscious order; that 

 it is in essence the same as human subconsciousness; 

 and that it is obviously only the first and lower manifes- 

 tation of the subconscious psychism. 



If it occupies the whole, or what appears to be the 

 whole, of the psychological field of the animal, that is 

 merely because in the animal consciousness is as yet 

 undeveloped. 



(b) HUMAN SUBCONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ANIMAL INSTINCT 

 DEVELOPED, EXPANDED, AND ENRICHED BY PRO- 

 GRESSIVE EVOLUTION 



This law is the corollary of the last, and rests on 

 the same arguments. All that essentially characterises 

 human subconsciousness is found in animal instinct. 

 M. Ribot says of inspiration that ' primarily it is 

 impersonal and involuntary, it acts like an instinct^ when 

 and how it will.' 1 



It only remains to show that all particulars in which 

 subconsciousness is superior to instinct, can be simply 

 explained by difference in the evolutionary level. For 

 this demonstration we must refer the reader to Book II. 



We shall there show the processus by which the 



1 Ribot : Psychologic des Sentiments. The italics are Dr Geley's. 



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