The Evohition of Mind. 233 



the amount of mind already existing is the amount 

 of mind evolved. The grouping does not originate 

 intelligence ; intelligence regulates the grouping : mind 

 is not the fruit of the clusters ; the clusters are the 

 product of mind. 



These groups are separated into real and ideal. 

 What we call knowing an object is the assimilation 

 of a group of real feelings with one or more ideal 

 groups.* Grouping implies the distinction between 

 what Mr. Spencer calls real and ideal feelings that 

 is, between presentative and representative know- 

 ledge. The evolutionist cannot take a single step 

 forward in his clustering of feelings, unless there be 

 granted him the existence of some means by which 

 what has been presented in perception can be retained 

 and reproduced and compared with the new object. 

 Here we have cognition of objects, retention and re- 

 production of percepts, knowledge of relations, and 

 -comparison of the objects of consciousness condition- 

 ing the evolution of mind. " The feelings called 

 sensations cannot of themselves constitute Mind, even 

 when great numbers of various kinds are present 

 together. Mind is constituted only when each sensa- 

 tion is assimilated to the faint forms of antecedent 

 sensations." ( This "consolidation of successive sen- 

 sations to form what we call a knowledge of the 

 sensation as such," is needed "to form the smallest 



* Psychology, Vol. I., 73. t Ibid., 73. 



