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theory the things which appear to be added a 

 new colour or a new scent were there all the 

 time. They were " stopped down " or inhibited 

 by some other factor, which, when eliminated, 

 allows them to come into play, and thus to become 

 obvious to the observer from whom they had been 

 hidden. Thus, Professor Bateson (M., p. 17) 

 has confidence " that the artistic gifts of man- 

 kind will prove to be due, not to something added 

 to the make-up of an ordinary man, but to the 

 absence of factors which in the normal person 

 inhibit the development of these gifts. They are 

 almost beyond doubt to be looked upon as releases 

 of powers normally suppressed. The instrument 

 is there, but it is ' stopped down.' " 



That all sorts of things may exist in a very 

 small compass no doubt is true. Professor Bate- 

 son reminds us that Shakespeare was once " a 

 speck of protoplasm not so big as a small pin's 

 head." The difficulty insuperable on ordinary 

 monistic lines is how all these things got into 

 the germ if no additions ever take place. It was 

 so difficult to account, for example, for artistic 

 appreciation on the part of man or for gifts of 

 an artistic character that Huxley was fain to 

 describe them as gratuitous ; but on this showing 

 all characters are gratuitous in the sense that they 

 are not acquired. We may reasonably inquire 

 not merely how all these characters and factors 

 got themselves " arranged " or " packed," but 

 where they came from, and how they came to 

 be in the germ at all, matters on which swe 

 receive no information in these addresses. No 



