l8 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



found in Memory the only insuperable diffi- 

 culty in the way of reducing the definition of 

 ourselves into that of mere " Possibilities of 

 Feeling."* But in pursuing these speculations 

 into the most inscrutable of all subjects, St. 

 Augustine is but following the instincts of the 

 same restless and curious intellect which had 

 once struggled with the questions, What 

 Matter is, and How Evil came to be ? There 

 is no inquiry in which the human mind comes 

 so immediately to the limit of its powers, as 

 in the analysis of itself Inscrutable questions 

 may indeed be asked as to what Man once 

 was. But questions much more inscrutable 



* Mr. J. S. Mill. I have discussed elsewhere the logic and 

 the adequacy of this definition: — "The Reign of Law." Fifth 

 Edition. Note D. 



