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than anything else in the anecdote. We are told that 

 after having discovered this " mechanical principle," his 

 little beast "proceeded forthwith to generalize." Con- 

 cerning the objects thus mischievously unscrewed, 

 screwed, and unscrewed again and again, we are gravely 

 assured, as to the separated parts, that the monkey " was 

 by no means careful always to replace them " — as if he 

 was ever careful to do so, and as if those which were 

 replaced were replaced by a sort of quasi-ethical, 

 deliberate intention ! Next follows * an interesting 

 account of the raising by a minute spider of a house- 

 fly twenty times its weight, through a very ingenious 

 process, but one in no way really more wonderful than 

 many other curious contrivances of which spiders in- 

 stinctively avail themselves. 



Mr. Romanes afterwards remarks how the gradually 

 increasing receptual power of animals prepares the way 

 for the formation of concepts, a remark with which we 

 agree in our own sense. Knowing, and ever asserting 

 the necessary dependence of the exercise of intellect 

 in us rational animals upon a foundation of associated 

 feelings of all kinds, we also affirm that in animal 

 evolution, mechanism is gradually more and more per- 

 fected in anticipation of that intelligence which was to 

 be introduced into the material world with the advent 

 of man. Our author adds,f what is indeed most true, 

 he has not yet proved " that the ideation which we have 

 in common with brutes [our sense-perception] is not 

 supplemented by ideation of some other order, or kind. 

 Presently," he continues, "I shall consider the arguments 

 * p. 62. t P- 64. 



