EVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN CHARACTER. 383 



Thus in psychology as in physiognomy,* the palcontological 

 order of development is somewhat different from the embryologi- 

 cal. I might compare the two orders as follows : 



The qualities enumerated in the first column follow each other 

 directly in order from the simple to the complex. In the second 

 column this order is disturbed by the earlier appearance of the 

 derivative emotions, beauty, wonder, admiration, and pity, or be- 

 nevolence, and the later appearance of the simple emotion of sex. 

 Thus in psychological as in other evolution, some of the products 

 of development appear earlier and earlier in life in accordance 

 with the law of acceleration. 



The intelligence has already been considered under the two 

 heads of the imagination and the reason. The action of the im- 

 agination, unmixed with the exercise of reason, is chiefly to be 

 seen in the creative fine arts, as distinguished from the imitative, 

 the mechanic, and other arts. The musician, the painter, the 

 sculptor, the poet, the novelist and the playwright, so far as they 

 are not imitators, present the best illustrations of the work of the 

 imagination. It is a faculty which must be very little developed 

 in the animals below man. They occasionally make mistakes in 

 the nature of objects, and suppose them to be other than what 

 they are. Thus the Antilocapra supposes the Indian disguised 

 with a skin and horns to be one of his own species, and suffers 

 the penalty. But this is a most rudimental act of imagination, if 

 it be not mere curiosity. 



The reason, properly so called, begins in its lowest grades with 

 the simplest re-arrangement of the objects of sense and memory, 

 in accordance with some principle of relation. As the principle 

 or standard of relation varies, so does the intellectual process. If 



*" Naturalist," 1883, p. 618. 



