777 A; BELFAST .\ />/>/: f-sa. 1^1 



'ient-granulcs sui - is incipiet!' 



through tin- operation of m: iuMmeiii th 



iies (lie M that il displays in tin- hawk and 



- >f tin- other al diHer- 



nations of a li.-suc which was originally vaguely 

 ail o. 



With the de\elopmont of the senses, the adjustm 

 between the organism and its en vironnient gradually extend 

 in ft/nn-f, a multiplication of cxpericm . id- 



ing modification of conduct being the result. 'I'he adji 

 ni-'Mts aUo rxtiMul in /// :nu r rontiiiiially 



intervals. Along witli this extension in >paee am! tune 

 the adju increase in specialitv and complexity. 



passing through the various grades of brute life, and nro- 

 tliemselves into the domain MOD. \ 



striking are Mr. Spencer's remarks regarding llni inlluence 1 1 

 of the souse of touch upon the development of intelli^enee. / | 

 This is, so to say, the mother-tongue of all the sen- 

 into which they must be translated to be of service to the 



mism. Hence its importance. The parrot is the most 

 intelligent of birds, and its tactual power i.s also g. 

 Kroin this sense it gets knowledge, unattainable by birds 

 which cannot employ their feet as hands. The elephant 

 is the most sagacious of quadrupeds its tactual range and 

 skill, and the consequent multiplication of c\p< : 

 which it o its wonderfully adaptable trunk, b< 



the basis of its sagacity. Feline animals, f<>r a >im. 

 cause, are more sagacious than hoofed animals atonement 

 being to some extent made in the case of the horse, by ' 

 possession of sensitive prehensile lips. In the /'/////< 

 the evolution of intellect and the evolution of tactual ap- 

 peipia'j'-s go hand in hand. In the mo>t intelligent an- 

 thropoid a|>es we (hid the tactual range and delicacy greatly 

 augmented, new avenues of knowledge being thus opened 



he animal. Man crowns the ed n. only in 



virtue of his own manipulatory power, hut through t 



rmoiis extension of his range of . by the 



invention of instruments of j- . wliich serve as sup- 



plemental senses and supplem.^'al limbs. Ti 

 action of these is finely de*< 



chastened in .1 emotion to which I ha\e referred in 



connection \\itn Mr. I >arwin. is DO< ' spencer. 



ions possess at times exceeding vividness and 



