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cination. But Prof. Wheeler seems to be wrong when 

 he adds : "This conclusion, however, even if it be ex- 

 tended so as to exclude all animals except man from a 

 participation of this faculty, does not imply the admis- 

 sion of a qualitative difference between the human and 

 animal psyche, as understood by Wasmann." For if 

 we exclude the faculty of ratiocination from all animals 

 except man, we necessarily exclude them from a par- 

 ticipation of intelligence. Man is then the only intelli- 

 gent being in opposition to all animals whose powers 

 are merely of a sensitive nature. But this implies an 

 essential difference between man and beast. Prof. 

 Wheeler appeals in vain to the individual evolution of 

 mental life in children, where the exercise of the sensi- 

 tive precedes that of the intellectual faculty. For the 

 human soul has different powers, those of the sensitive 

 and those of the spiritual order, and the exercise of 

 the latter presupposes the evolution of the former with- 

 out changing their essential difference. "Show us the 

 animal," we say to Prof. Wheeler, "which becomes or 

 has become man in the same way as the human child 

 develops its mental faculties, the spiritual after the 

 sensitive, and we shall admit the correctness of your 

 phylogenetic psychogenesis of man." 



