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gaining their ends. We have thus gone through all the 

 points enumerated on p. 168 as distinctive of Concrete 

 Experience and the Practical Judgment, and have seen 

 some ground for imputing each and all to the higher 

 animals. At no one point, perhaps, is the evidence con- 

 clusive ; but it is to be remembered that these functions 

 are interconnected, so that evidence of capacity for one is 

 indirect evidence of capacity for another. We have, there- 

 fore, a set of independent arguments all pointing in the 

 same direction, and it is on this convergence of evidence, 

 rather than on decisive proof at any one point, that our 

 hypothesis must rest. 



