CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



INTELLIGENCE. 



Formative, motor, and mental functions, all guided by intelligence — Instinctive 

 intelligence of the bee the same in kind with formative intelligence — Instinct 

 is not more wonderful than formative intelligence — Purpose in the formation 

 and action of the iris — Gradation from unconscious to conscious and rational 

 motor actions in the eye, and in the digestive orgtins — Actions determined by 

 sensation — All motor actions are intelligent, whether conscious or not — Intel- 

 ligence, unconscious and conscious, formative and mental, is fundamentally 

 the same — This view includes instinct — We cannot point out the beginning of 

 sensation, or of consciousness — Most thought, perhaps all, is partly unconscious 

 — Identity of formative, instinctive, and mental intelligence — A special act of 

 creation is not necessary for every new adaptation — Moral difliculties lessened 

 by this view — Parasitic worms — Unnatural or immoral instincts — All matter 

 is endowed with forces, and vitalized matter is endowed with intelligence — 

 Intelligence tends to guide all vital actions in the direction that is best for the 

 health of the organism — Disease is no exception — Vital actions minister not 

 only to the individual, but to the race — Reproductive and maternal functions — 

 Social afiections — Development of unconscious action into conscious — Love of 

 life. 



Note : Instinct : — Instincts of social insects cannot be inherited — Darwin's ex- 

 planation by natural selection — I think them due to Intelligence — Instincts of 

 some fishes Pp. 1—1 1 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



MIND. 



Definition impossible — Mind is developed out of sensation — Consciousness inex- 

 plicable — Consciousness is of sensation — Sensation without consciousness — 

 Sleep — Mental development — Consciousness distinct from sensation — Acquired 

 taste due to a change not in the sensation, but in the consciousness of it — 



