6o THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN REASON 



calls the " Logic of Recepts." Before proceeding to its 

 examination, we would ask our readers to bear carefully 

 in mind eight special points, some of which have been 

 already adverted to either in our introductory chapter 

 or in the present one, but which we deem it necessary to 

 here especially insist upon : — 



(i) It is abundantly evident, and it is freely admitted 

 by Mr. Romanes himself, that animals, even the highest, 

 do not exercise the intellectual powers which we exer- 

 cise ; though it is plain that they possess abundantly the 

 sensitive faculties of feeling, imagination, and emotion. 



(2) Besides our powers of feehng, thinking, and 

 willing, we possess both a faculty of instinct * and a 

 power of forming habits.f These powers account for the 

 existence, even in ourselves, of a number of actions 

 which our possession of intellect will not account for,t 

 and it is an unquestionable fact that instinct is more 

 largely developed in animals,§ notably in insects, than 

 it is in ourselves. 



(3) These faculties of instinct and habit, do not form 

 part of our conscious life. We are, of course, conscious 

 of the actions we perform, and we can recognize them as 

 having been instinctive or habitual. But we have no 

 conscious experience of those faculties, while we have 

 conscious experience of our powers of reasoning, think- 



* As to this faculty in ourselves, see " On Truth," pp. 175, 184. 



t Habit is the determination in one direction of a previously- 

 vague tendency to action. Its existence presupposes this active 

 tendency. See " On Truth," pp. 174, 358, 362. 



X Such as the sucking of the infant and various activities 

 attending adolescence. 



§ See " On Truth," p. 358, for various cases in point. 



