20 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



ideas differing from their own. At the pre- 

 sent moment this is the habitual practice of 

 a whole school of thinkers, who have eyes 

 for nothing but a particular class of facts, and 

 who therefore very naturally resort to the 

 assertion that all eyes with a wider range of 

 vision are eyes of "phantasy." And if this 

 has been sometimes the result of the anatomy 

 of Mind, what are we to say of the anatomy 

 of the Body .•* We cannot even think of our 

 bodily frames without encountering at once all 

 the facts which connect the phenomena of 

 Mind with the structure and condition of 

 Material Organs. And then our Organism 

 as a whole, how close it stands to that of the 

 beasts that perish ! Are we to close these 

 paths of investigatipn also, because some 



