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coursing would have no existence. On the other 

 hand, as that art is largely practised, it follows 

 that greyhounds alone possess a numher of mental 

 powers, the existence of which, in any animal, is 

 absolutely denied by the Quarterly Keviewer. 



Finally, what are the mental powers which he 

 reserves as the especial prerogative of man ? 

 They are two. First, the recognition of "our- 

 selves by ourselves as affected and perceiving. 

 Self-consciousness." 



Secondly. " The reflection upon our sensations 

 and perceptions, and asking what they are and 

 why they are. Reason." 



To the faculty defined in the last sentence, the 

 Reviewer, without assigning the least ground for 

 thus departing from both common usage and 

 technical propriety, applies the name of reason. 

 But if man is not to be considered a reasoning 

 being, unless he asks what his sensations and per- 

 ceptions are, and why they are, what is a Hot- 

 tentot, or an Australian " black-fellow " ; or what 

 the " swinked hedger " of an ordinary agricultural 

 district? Nay, what becomes of an average 

 country squire or parson ? How many of these 

 worthy persons who, as their wont is, read the 

 Quarterly Review, would do other than stand 

 agape, if you asked them whether they had ever 

 reflected what their sensations and perceptions 

 are and why they are ? 



So that if the Reviewer's new definition of rea- 



