114 THE HUMANIZING OF THE BRUTE. 



an absolute impossibility, since matter and sense are es- 

 sentially inferior to spirit and intellect. For the origin 

 of our "intellectual and moral faculties" we can only 

 find "an adequate cause in the unseen universe of 

 Spirit." 2 ) 



und Tierseele." Hamburg und Leipzig, 1897, 3d ed., p. 419. 

 It is remarkable that Wundt has arrived at the same conclusions 

 concerning the "intelligence of animals" as Thorndike. 

 Wundt even considers it as very improbable that some species 

 or individuals of the present animal kingdom will ever pass 

 the limit separating sense and intelligence; on the other hand, 

 he assumes, as we have stated, that the human species in the 

 course of its evolution has actually taken that important step! 

 2 ) Alfred Russell Wallace, "Darwinism," Humboldt ed. 

 Part IT., p. 322. 



