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He declares that instinct is not due to organisation so 

 much as organisation to instinct.^ The fact is, that 

 neither can claim precedence of or pre-eminence over the 

 other. Instinct and organisation are only mind and body, 

 or mind and matter; and these are not two separable 

 things, but one and inseparable, with, as it were, two 

 sides, the one of which is a function of the other. There 

 was never yet either matter without mind, however low, 

 nor mind, however high, without a material body of some 

 sort ; there can be no change in one without a correspond- 

 ing change in the other ; neither came before the other ; 

 neither can either cease to change or cease to be ; for 

 " to be " is to continue changing, so that " to be " and 

 " to change" are one. 



Whence, he asks, comes the desire to gratify an instinct 

 before experience of the pleasure that will ensue on grati- 

 fication ? This is a pertinent question, but it is met by 

 Professor Hering with the answer that this is due to 

 memory — to the continuation in the germ of vibrations 

 that were vibrating in the body of the parent, and which, 

 when stimulated by vibrations of a suitable rhythm, be- 

 come more and more powerful till they suffice to set the 

 body in visible action. For my own part I only venture 

 to maintain that it is due to memory, that is to say, to 

 an enduring sense on the part of the germ of the action 

 it took when in the persons of its ancestors, and of the 

 gratification which ensued thereon. This meets Von Hart- 

 mann's whole difficulty. 



The glacier is not snow. It is snow packed tight into 

 a small compass, and has thus lost all trace of its original 

 form. How incomplete, however, would be any theory 

 of glacial action which left out of sight the origin of the 

 glacier in snow ! Von Hartmann loses sight of the origin 



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