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not as the result of the grouping, but as its condition. 

 Mind directs the work. See how much is implied: 

 a sentient organism, feelings, relations of feelings, 

 knowledge of relations, composition of feelings and 

 of relations of feelings all that which is included 

 in the word thought. To borrow our terms from 

 another school of psychology we find sensation, per- 

 ception, memory, imagination, comparison, judgment, 

 reasoning ; and yet, with all these in exercise, we are 

 supposed to be but in the process of evolving a self- 

 conscious mind. 



Evolutionism is necessitated to assume an order 

 that will admit a gradual and unbroken advance 

 from the lowest form of sentience to the highest 

 powers of reasoning : the consciousness of self as 

 contrasted with not-self breaks the continuity. The 

 cohesion of the whole can only be effected by account- 

 ing for this fundamental distinction as having arisen 

 in the gradual clustering of feelings into the two 

 groups above described. But there is nothing in 

 experience to warrant such a theory of the origin of 

 self-consciousness. 



The evolutionist is unable to give account of any 

 vital fact arising in the study of mental science. The 

 evolving mass, working in limitless energy through 

 its perpetual mutations, has no promise in it of a 

 self-knowing mind. However varied the multiplicity 

 of change, there cannot emerge out of it a being con- 

 scious of self, and who, surveying the world in which 



