VI 



APPETITE, OR INCIPIENT MIND. 



Darwin thinks development of Mind a hopeless inquiry. We explain 

 it. Appetite the lowest form of Mind in Animals. Spontane* 

 oas Insects eating immediately. What is Appetite ? The Atomic 

 Law of Like to Like. Mind and Life, Properties of Matter. - 

 Vegetable Appetite. A Seal's Appetite. A Calfs Appetite.-^ 

 Why it does not eat bricks and stones.-^A Baby's Appetite. 

 Appetite for Tomatoes. Superiority of a Brute's Appetite over 

 Man'i. 



DARWIN in his " Descent of Man " says : In what manner 

 the mental powers wefe first developed in the lower organisms 

 is as hopeless an inquiry as how life first originated. These are 

 problems for the distant future, if they are ever to be solved by 

 man." 



But if we have shown how, by an atomic law, the greater 

 mystery of life originates, surely an explanation of the lesser 

 mystery of mind ought to be comparatively easy. 



All animals, the instant they are endowed with life and 

 freedom, are given also a mind suitable to their condition, in 

 the form of an appetite ; which is the lowest phase of mind 

 in animals. For instance, the minute insects which Mr. Crosse 

 brought out of silicate of potash, immediately began to feed on 

 the matter they were produced trom. What led them to do so? 

 What told them that silicate of potash was good for them to 



