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THE ASCENT OF MAN 



without being convinced at least of the thorough- 

 ness and fairness of the investigation. That abund- 

 ant traces were found of Mind in the lower animals 

 goes without saying. But the range of mental 

 phenomena discovered there may certainly excite 

 surprise. Thus, to consider only one set of phe- 

 nomena — that of the emotions — all the following 

 products of emotional development are represented 

 at one stage or another of animal life : 



But this list is something more than a bare cata- 

 logue of what human emotions exist in the animal 

 world. It is an arranged catalogue, a more or less 

 definite psychological scale. These emotions did 

 not only appear in animals, but they appeared 

 in this order. Now to find out order in Evolution 

 is of first importance. For order of events is his- 

 tory, and Evolution is history. In creatures very 

 far down the scale of life — the Annelids — Mr. 

 Romanes distinguished what appeared to him to 



