INSTINCT AND REASON. 109 
brought fully into play. One may possess certain faculties 
to a pronounced and well-marked extent, which in another 
man may seem to be absent, or at best dwarfed and stunted, 
and the man in whom they are undeveloped may be 
incredulous of their existence in another. And a painter or 
a musician is a phenomenon to a man who has cultivated no 
faculty for painting or music, but who, under more favourable 
circumstances, and better developing conditions, would pos- 
sibly have been at least very much more apt. 
And as with the intellectual, so also with the moral 
faculties, certam of which may be possessed by men who, 
to others, who have not cultivated them, may appear as 
simple enthusiasts; but that does not prejudice them as real 
possessions, prized as such by those who are fully conscious 
of possessing them. A man with the spiritual faculty 
opened and developed in him may feel and know that he is 
in possession of a faculty which is to him a precious reality ; 
while another, who does not possess it, who possesses indeed 
the capability of its development, but who by persistently 
denying it incapacitates himself from exercising it, so that, 
like any other wnexercised faculty, it becomes atrophied 
within him, bestows upon his better gifted neighbour a self- 
satisfied smile, and points at him as a superstitious weakling. 
But such a course does not prove anything more than that 
such gifts are not equally valued by all, although their 
developmert demands an exercise of will which can never 
be set in action if the world into which the faculty leads is, 
in the outset, denied. It certainly does not in the smallest 
degree prove away the existence of what the one is 
conscious of possessing, though the other is incapable of 
comprehending it. 
Those who would limit the faculties of Man to a certain 
section of them which are correlative with the outer, lower, 
or mere material world of Nature only, would do well to 
ponder the grand eulogium of the Poet, who, in language 
befitting his theme, thus apostrophises that section of the 
Primates which constitutes the human kind. ‘ Whata piece 
of work is Man! How noble in Reason! how infinite in 
faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable ! 
in action how like an angel! in apprehension how lke a 
god! The Beauty of the World! the paragon of animals!”* 
* It is to be feared, however, that the typical attitude of the mental! 
Evolutionist is to parody this just and magnificent tribute. ‘“ What a 
piece of journey-work is Man!” we might fancy him saying: “ How 
