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whole being tingles with sentient life. I sense, or am aware 
of, my own life and consciousness, in an unusually subtle 
manner. Experience is vivid and continuous. Such I take it 
to be the condition of the conscious but not yet self-conscious 
animal.” 
I can therefore cordially endorse Dr. Thorndike’s conclu- 
sions as expressed in the following passages :— 
“ One who has watched the life of a cat or dog fora month 
or more under test conditions, gets, or fancies he gets, a fairly 
definite idea of what the intellectual [intelligent] life of a cat 
or dog feels like. It is most like what we feel when con- 
sciousness contains little thought about anything, when we feel 
the sense-impressions in their first intention, so to speak, when 
we feel our own body, and the impulses we give to it. Some- 
times one gets this animal consciousness while in swimming, 
for example. One feels the water, the sky, the birds above, 
but with no thoughts about them or memories of how they 
looked at other times, or esthetic judgments about their 
beauty; one feels no ideas about what movements he will 
make, but feels himself make them, feels his body throughout. 
Self-consciousness dies away. Social consciousness dies away. 
The meanings, and values, and connections of things die away. 
One feels sense-impressions, has impulses, feels the movements 
he makes ; that is all.” 
And after an illustration from such a game as tennis, Dr. 
Thorndike adds: “ Finally the elements of the associations are 
not isolated. No tennis-player’s stream of thought is filled 
with free-floating representations of any of the tens of 
thousands of sense-impressions or movements he has seen and 
made on the tennis-court. Yet there is consciousness enough 
at the time, keen consciousness of the sense-impressions, 
impulses, feelings of one’s bodily acts. So with the animals. 
There is consciousness enough, but of this kind.” 
It may be said that between the method of intelligence and 
that of fully developed rational procedure there is a wide gap 
which must have been bridged in the course of mental evolu- 
tion. Unquestionably. And in contending that the methods 
