184 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO STUDIES 



If the consciousness that slumbers in it should awake, if it were wound 

 up into knowledge instead of being wound off into action, it would 

 give up to us the most intimate secrets of life. 



Instinct, in extreme cases (bees and ants), coincides with groups 

 instead of individuals, and the individuals are like cells of the group : 

 cannot live without one another. 



There are two theories as to origin: (1) the reflex theory (neo- 

 Darwinism), and (2) the "lapsed intelligence" theory. 



We find in nature many species in a circle interpreting one theme 

 yet no relation between species. 



The Ammophila hirsuta gives nine successive strokes to the larva 

 of the rose-beetle, but the Sphex and the Scolia attack the same theme 

 differently. These marvels result from sympathy, not knowledge. 

 Instinct is sympathy. 



And as to knowledge generally, the aesthetic intuition must 

 supersede intellect as organ of a philosophy of life. If the intellect 

 were once freed, it might turn and awaken the consciousness that sleeps 

 in instinct. 



The third chapter begins with a long review of the author's teach- 

 ings regarding matter and duration, and is hardly intelligible without 

 a careful study of his earlier works. 



He points out once more that his definition of matter, looked at 

 as an undivided whole, makes it a flux rather than a thing. The 

 inert and the living, or organized, matter stand out from this back- 

 ground of vibrations. 



In an analogous way, instinct and intellect, though opposed to 

 each other, stand out from a background of what may be called con- 

 sciousness, or psychic world. 



A real evolution must account for a genesis of intellect, but this 

 can never be done merely by showing the progress of mind through 

 animal intelligence and in a comparatively static and given environ- 

 ment. Such a method does not generate or engender intelligence. 

 Spencer's method is no more evolutional than Fichte's. Fichte like 

 many Germans starts with the idea that mind is already "given." 



