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ment, the parallelism though much moie fafnt is at 

 least shadowed. Again we find a list of intellectual 

 products common to both Animal and Man, and 

 again an approximate order common to both. It is 

 true, Man's development beyond the highest point 

 attained by any animal in the region of the intel- 

 lect, is all but infinite. Of rational judgment he has 

 the whole monopoly. Wherever the roots of Mind 

 be, there is no uncertainty as to where, and where 

 exclusively, the higher branches are. Grant that 

 the mental faculties of Man and Animal part 

 company at a point, there remains to consider 

 the vast distance — in the case of the emotions 

 almost the whole distance — where they run par- 

 allel with one another. Comparative psychology 

 is not so advanced a science as comparative 

 embryology; yet no one who has felt the force 

 of the recapitulation argument for the evolution of 

 bodily function, even making all allowances for the 

 differences of the things compared, will deny the 

 weight of the corresponding argument for the 

 evolution of Mind. Why should the Mind thus 

 recapitulate in its development the psychic life of 

 animals unless some vital link connected them ? 



A singular complement to this argument has 

 been suggested recently — though as yet only in the 

 form of the vaguest hint — from the side of Mental 



