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showed no particular aptitude at school; but in his 

 h y-ar h- wvnt to Cambridge, and soon aftcr- 



1 astonished his teachers by his power of dealing with 

 geometrical problems. During his quiet youth his brain 

 was slowly preparing itself to be the organ of those energies 

 which he subsequently displayed. 



By myriad blows (to use a Lucretian iwraee) ti 

 and superscription of the external world are flan. 



kM of consciousness upon the organism, the deptli of ' 

 the impression depending on the number of the blows. 

 When two or more phenomena occur in the environment 

 invariably together, they are stamped to the same depth 

 or to the same relief, and indissolubly connected. And 

 here we come to the threshold of a great question. Seeing 

 that he could in no way rid himself of the consciousness 

 Space and Time, Kant assumed them to be necessary 

 "forms of intuition," the molds and shapes into which 

 our intuitions are thrown, belonging to ourselves, and 

 without objective existence. With unexpected power and 

 success, Mr. Spencer brings the hereditary experi< 



ry, as he holds it, to bear upon this question. "If 

 ttiete exist certain external relations which are experienced 

 bv all organisms at all instants of their waking lives rela- 

 tions which are absolutely constant and universal th* 

 will be established answering internal relations, that aie 



intely constant and universal. Such relations we 

 have in those of Space and Time. As the substratum 

 of all other relations of the Non-ego, they must be re 

 sponded to by conceptions that are the substrata of all 

 other relations in the Ego. Being the constant and infi- 

 nitely r.-peated elements of thought, they must become the 

 ! elements of thought the elements of thought 

 which it is impossible to get rid of the "forms of 

 intuition." 



Throughout this application and extension of Hartley's 

 and Mill's '* I^aw of Inseparable Association," Mr. 

 stands upon his own ground, invoking, instead of 

 \ perietices of the individual, the nv 



of the race. His overthrow of the restriction of experience 

 tothe_indivirmil is. I think, complete. That restriction 



Tthe power of organizing experience, furnish 

 the outset to each individual; it ignores the different 

 degrees of this power possessed by different races, and l.y 



