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mental evolutionist though he be, with the gap 

 between the Minds of Man and brute that his 

 language is almost as strong : " I for one do not for 

 a moment question that the mental processes of man 

 and animals are alike products of evolution. The 

 power of cognizing relations, reflection and intro- 

 spection, appear to me to mark a new departure 

 in evolution,"^ and " I am not prepared to say 

 that there is a difference in kind between the mind 

 of man and the mind of a dog. This would 

 imply a difference in origin or a difference in the 

 essential nature of its being. There is a great and 

 marked difference in kind between the material 

 processes which we call physiological and the 

 mental processes we call psychical. They belong 

 to wholly different orders of being. I see no 

 reason for believing that mental processes in man 

 differ thus in kind from mental processes in 

 animals. But I do think that we have, in the 

 introduction of the analytic faculty, so definite 

 and marked a new departure that we should em- 

 phasize it by saying that the faculty of perception, 

 in its various specific grades, differs generically 

 from the faculty of conception. And believing, 

 as I do, that conception is beyond the power of 

 my favourite and clever dog, I am forced to 

 ^C. Lloyd Morgan, Nature^ Sept. [, 1892, p. 417. 



