HABIT AND INTELLIGENCE. 



CHAPTEE XXVII. 



INTELLIGENCE. 



WE have seen in a previous chapter that vital functions Forma- 

 are to be classed as formative, motor, and sensory, ^^^l'^^ 

 Sensory functions develop into mental ones; and for the and mental 

 purpose of the present chapter I shall speak of functions "^'^ ^""^ ' 

 as formative, motor, and mental. 



Formative, motor, and mental actions are all guided by all guided 

 intelligence. In the last two chapters I have endeavoured ^^ ii^teiii- 

 to prove that formative or organizing intelligence is an 

 ultimate, inexplicable fact, not capable of being resolved 

 into any other; and in what follows I shall take this as 

 proved. Those who agree with me that the complexities 

 of such organs as the eye and the ear are due to un- 

 conscious intelligence, will probably feel no difficulty in 

 believing the same of such wonderful motor instincts as 

 the cell-building powers of the bee and the wasp. These Instinctive 

 insects, in building their hexagonal cells, are manifestly ^J^^^'^^ 

 guided by intelligence of some kind; but it cannot be the bee, 

 conscious intelligence, for we cannot think that they have 

 any conscious knowledge of those properties of the hexagon 

 which make that form the most suitable to their purposes. 



The unconscious intelligence that guides the cell-buildins ^'^'^ ^^^^ 



„ , , • J 1 J 1 . ■, . 1" kind 



actions of the bee is exactly the same m kind with the with 



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