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the preceding chapter we first met with two activities 

 which were wonderfully different from any to be recog- 

 nised as existing in the inorganic world, the first of these 

 was life and the possession by certain beings of a power 

 of internal growth ultimately resulting in the generation 

 of new individuals. The second wonder was that faculty 

 of feeling, which seemed to be bound up with the 

 possession by an organism of a certain kind of tissue, 

 so that only a section of the whole organic world could, 

 with certainty be deemed to possess it. But the higher 

 animals, we saw, have such complex and definite sensitivity 

 that it is evident they not only possess special senses, but 

 can sensuously perceive objects about them, that they 

 possess imaginations and a kind of memory, with emotions 

 and anticipations of feelings yet to be experienced. 



In the present chapter we make an advance upon 

 what we have previously studied, which is far greater 

 than the advance we made in passing from the non- 

 living world to the world instinct with life and feeling. 

 For now we have entered upon the world of intellec- 

 tuality the world of thought. 



And here we put aside all questions of origin and 

 essential nature, as we before did with respect to life 

 and the physical forces. When treating of heat, light, 

 &c., we declared that an elementary work like the 

 present was not the place wherein to consider the 

 problems of what such physical forces in themselves 

 might be*, and in describing lifef we forbore to enter 

 upon the question what life is, as similarly beyond our 

 present aim. So as regards intellect and thought, it 

 matters not to us, here and now, how or whence they came 

 to be, how early in life they may show themselves, or how 



* See ante, p. 86. t See ante, p. 189. 



