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perience of the race All the organized arrange- 

 ments subsisting among the nerves of the infant's 

 brain, not only make possible certain combinations of 

 impressions, but also imply that such combinations will 

 hereafter be made imply that there are answering 

 combinations in the outer world a preparedness to 

 cognize these combinations imply faculties of com- 

 prehending them In the sense, then, that there 



exist in the nervous system certain pre-established 

 relations answering to relations in the environment, 

 there is truth in the doctrine of ' forms of intuition ' 

 not the truth which its defenders suppose, but a 

 parallel truth. Corresponding to absolute external 

 relations, there are established in the structure of the 

 nervous system absolute internal relations relations 

 that are potentially present before birth in the shape 

 of definite nervous connexions These pre- 

 determined internal relations, though independent of 

 the experiences of the individual, are not independent 

 of experiences in general : they have been determined 

 by the experiences of preceding organisms. The cor- 

 ollary here drawn from the general argument is that 

 the human brain is an organized register of infinitely 

 numerous experiences received during the evolution of 

 life, or rather, during the evolution of that series of 

 organisms through which the human organism has 

 been reached. The effects of the most uniform and 

 frequent of these experiences have been successively 

 bequeathed, principal and interest ; and have slowly 



