The Evolution of Mind. 241 



vivid current is absolutely unmodifiable by the faint, 

 and the faint may become almost separate from the 

 vivid. The conditions under which modifications of 

 either order occur, themselves belong to that order; 

 but whereas in the faint order the conditions are 

 always present, in the vivid order the conditions are 

 often not present, but lie somewhere outside of the 

 series. Seven separate characters, then, mark off 

 these two orders of manifestations from one another."* 



I quote this enumeration at length, as a full state- 

 ment of Mr. Spencer's position is necessary to justify 

 my criticism. He bases on this ground his doctrine 

 that the unknowable power is conditioned in mani- 

 festations of two orders mental and material and 

 repudiates either material or spiritual unitarianism. 



What are here called manifestations, vivid or faint, 

 are elsewhere spoken of as feelings " primary or 

 vivid feelings," and " secondary or faint feelings."-)- It 

 could not be otherwise ; for manifestations can have 

 place in consciousness, on the evolution hypothesis, 

 only as feelings. This fact has an important bearing 

 on the doctrine that " each order of manifestations 

 carries with it the irresistible implication of some 

 power that manifests itself ; and by the words ego 

 and non-ego respectively, we mean the power that 

 manifests itself in the faint forms, and the power 

 that manifests itself in the vivid forms." J At first 



* First Principles, 43. t Psychology, Vol. I., 73. 

 I First Principles, 44. 



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