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(mental images), will and motion, as is in the higher 

 animals compounded of many cells " (p. 13). Vircho\v 

 now rises up in the strongest protest against this 

 theory of a cellular sensibility, which I regard as the 

 inevitable consequence of his early views of cellular 

 physiology ; it is to him " mere trifling with words." 

 He combats with equal decisiveness "the scientific 

 necessity of extending the province of psychical pro- 

 cesses beyond the circle of those bodies in and by 

 which we actually see them exhibited." He further 

 says, " If I explain attraction and repulsion as psychical 

 phenomena, I simply throw the psyche out of the 

 window ; the psyche ceases to be a psyche." Finally 

 he says, " I assert without any hesitation that for us 

 the sum total of psychical phenomena is connected 

 with certain animals only, and not with the collective 

 mass of all organic beings; nay, not even with all 

 animals in general. We have no ground as yet for 

 speaking of the lowest animals as possessing psychical 

 properties; we find such properties only in the higher 

 grades, and with perfect certainty only in the very 

 highest," 



When I first read this and other astounding state- 

 ments in Virchow's paper, I involuntarily asked my- 

 self, " Can this be the same Virchow from whom, 

 twenty-five years ago, I learnt in Wiirzburg that the 

 soul-functions of man and animals depend on me- 



