THE DA WN OF MIND i6i 



son the ninety-nine and nine-tenths per cent of 

 what is over and above that common fraction is 

 by no sort of reasoning lawful. Man, in the last 

 resort, has self-consciousness, Mimosa sensation ; 

 and the difference is qualitative as well as quan- 

 titative. 



If, however, it is a fallacy to ignore the qualita- 

 tive differences arising in the course of the transi- 

 tion, it may be a mistake, on the other hand, to 

 make nothing of the transition. If in the name 

 of Science the advocate of the Law of Continuity 

 demands that it be rectified, he may well make 

 the attempt. The partial truth for the present 

 perhaps amounts to this, that earlier phases of life 

 exhibit imperfect manifestations of principles which 

 in the higher structure and widened environment 

 of later forms are more fully manifested and ex- 

 pressed, yet are neither contained in the earlier 

 phases nor explained by them. At the same time, 

 everything that enters into Man, every sensation, 

 emotion, volition, enters with a difference, a differ- 

 ence due to the fact that he is a rational and 

 self-conscious being, a difference therefore which 

 no emphasis of language can exaggerate. The 

 music varies with the ear ; varies with the soul 

 behind the ear ; relates itself with all the music 

 that ear has ever heard before ; with the merQ 



