ii8 THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN REASON. 



that he anticipates no opposition, from any school, to 

 his analysis of mental states, and, he adds, that if his 

 classification of them is accepted, it follows that the 

 question of the origin of the human intellect is thrown 

 back upon that of "the faculty of language." He also 

 concludes his fourth chapter (which ends his main 

 analysis of mental states) by affirming* that the only 

 question "presented to the evolutionist is — Why has 

 no mere brute ever learnt to communicate with its 

 fellows? Why has man alone of animals been gifted 

 with the Logos ? " 



Some questions concerning language, the reader will 

 observe, have already been touched upon by Mr. Ro- 

 manes, and therefore necessarily by us. Further elu- 

 cidation of his views as to " mental states " will also 

 become evident in his treatment of speech. But in his 

 next five chapters he mainly applies himself to questions 

 concerning language, and to that also our own next 

 chapter will be devoted, although we have by no means 

 accepted his classification of mental states, so that we 

 cannot admit that the main question is really " thrown 

 back " upon that of the origin of speech. 



The distinction between the views expressed by 

 Mr. Romanes and those held by his opponents — with 

 respect to the question of mental states, to which his 

 five first chapters are mainly devoted — may be briefly 

 summarized as follows : Mr. Romanes ignores that 

 distinction between our own higher and lower mental 

 powers which we regard as probably the most funda- 

 mental and important of all the distinctions to be made 



* p. 84. 



