130 UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION 



Biiiet further says, "We reason because we have in 

 our brain a machine for reasoning. * * * In reason- 

 ing the primary roll belongs to the images." (That is, 

 the images that objectivity makes on the brain.) "It is 

 they, which spontaneously form, to our external sight, 

 the picture of the external world. * * * Just as 

 crystalization, in its oddest eccentricities, always ob- 

 serves a certain angular value, so reasoning true, false, 

 or insane, always obeys the laws of resemblance and 

 continuity. * * * It would be an error to believe 

 that this process belongs specially to reasoning. We 

 meet it in all intellectual operations. * * * The 

 highest science is epitomized in these simple words 

 "to see." 



DIFFERENCE IN BRAINS. The real difference between 

 two brains, whose anatomy is apparently alike, is 

 very obscure. Why the cognitive centers will develop 

 so much more rapidly, and become so much more power- 

 ful, in one, than in another, with an equal environment, 

 and practice, is a difficult problem. The difference in 

 function does not seem to depend entirely upon the 

 weight and size of the organs. The real difference be- 

 tween two brains is rather that of quality, or at least, 

 the quality of the nerve matter, or the perfection of the 

 cross association system, in its adaptation to the all im- 

 portant function of co-ordination, and inhibition. The 

 greater activity of the one brain, in producing that psy- 

 chic effect popularly called "will," impresses the ob- 

 server as being the result of the will reacting as a gov- 

 erning power, over the molecular motions, and thus 

 molding them by "will power." All the psychic phe- 

 nomena, beginning with the simple emotions, which per- 

 haps at a very early period of the evolution of mind, 

 were as difficult to express, as is now the highest thought, 



