Sophisms* 107 



" Self-consciousness is a living ellipse : " l and 

 Man is merely an automaton, though "a con- 

 scious automaton;" an "automaton endowed 

 with free will : " 2 



Had Horace heard all this, he would have 

 had something more to say about this snail-like 

 " mind, slumbering deeply ; " and would have 

 used a much stronger word than " quandoque." 



1 Oken. 



2 Prof. Huxley, in The Fortnightly Review, November, 

 1874, p. 577- 



