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CHAPTER 11. 



MENTAL STATES AND PROCESSES. 



The whole attempt of Mr. Romanes to show that the 

 intellect of man is but a development from the psychical 

 power of brutes, reposes upon his mode of representing 

 the various orders and degrees of cognition and intelli- 

 gence, and this again rests upon his analysis and 

 classification of mental states and processes. By 

 dividing and subdividing these according to a certain 

 system, by ignoring various more important distinctions 

 which exist between some of them, and by exaggerating 

 the significance of some minor differences, he is enabled 

 to draw out what, to the unwary, may look like a tran- 

 sitional series of psychical states. On this account it is 

 absolutely necessary that we should examine with great 

 care the whole of the three chapters (his second, third 

 and fourth chapters) which he devotes mainly to psycho- 

 logical analysis. In this section, however, he anticipates, 

 to a certain extent, what has to follow in his section on 

 language,* while in the latter he carries out further 

 and more completely elucidates, his own psychological 

 views. In our present chapter, therefore, we also cannot 

 quite neglect the subject of language, nor, when we 

 * His chaps, v., vi., vii., viii., and ix. 



