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This is the only difference in kind, if it be so allowed, 

 vis., that between concrete and abstract. 



Whence arises this power which man alone possesses ? 

 Perhaps Dr. Iverach is not far wrong when he says : 

 " Perhaps the greatest feat ever performed in psychology 

 is performed by Mr. Spencer when he affirms : ' Not only 

 do feelings constitute the inferior tracts of consciousness, 

 but feelings are in all cases the materials out of which, in 

 the superior tracts of consciousness, intellect is evolved by 

 structural combination ' {Psychology, vol. i., p. 192). That 

 is something worth knowing ! " ^ 



For my part, I prefer to be an Agnostic as to how 

 consciousness arose, and still more how self-consciousness 

 was superadded ; but facts seem sufficient to warrant the 

 conclusion that while the higher animals have only the 

 former, man has both. 



Mr. H. Spencer's interpretation conveys no definite 

 meaning to me. 



Romanes tried to throw light upon it as follows : 

 " Receptual or outward self-consciousness is the practical 

 recognition of self as an active and a feeling agent ; while 

 conceptual or inward self-consciousness is the introspective 

 recognition of self as an object of knowledge and there- 

 fore as a subject, etc.". 



What does all this — and a great deal more — mean 

 but that / am conscious of Myself, can mentally talk 

 about myself, compare myself to other selves, etc., etc. I 

 am tiot conscious, however, of having two sorts of self- 

 consciousness. Everything outside of Ego comes under 

 "consciousness" without the "self". Dr. Iverach, I 

 think, rightly observes : " At all events, Dr. Romanes 

 has not made clear what he means by conceptual self- 



1 Op. cit., p. 164. 



