22 OLD BLACK BASS 



vive : they reposed as food in the very body 

 where four months before they had lain as 

 eggs ready for the spawn. 



Nor was this heartless; it is merely na- 

 ture's way. With the bass there is no such 

 organ as memory in the sense in which we 

 understand the term. The bass has no 

 cortex, and the cortex is the brain center in 

 which our memories are stored. 



With the fish memory is physiological. 

 In the presence of external stimuli they are 

 roused to anger or lulled to contentment 

 or stirred to regard. But when the external 

 factors are removed they do not recall the 

 state produced by them, as men do. In joy 

 man recalls his sorrow; in joy the bass 

 merely and only experiences joy. 



Man's mind expresses itself in three 

 directions : toward the past, which is mem- 

 ory; toward the present, which is realiza- 

 tion ; and toward the future, which is antici- 

 pation. With the bass there is only the 

 present. 



So in this case. When the pressure of 

 her eggs led the mother bass to deposit them, 

 the action called forth in her the whole 

 series of movements connected with the 



