I26i THE DOCTRINE OF DESCENT. 



attained, so that the same inclination pre-exists in the 

 young individuals before they put it in practice. This 

 explanation, as Darwin has shown, certainly does not 

 suffice for all the facts of instinct, yet it stands far above 

 the modern " Philosophy of the Unconscious " (Philoso- 

 phie des Unbewussten), which places the organisms by 

 which the instincts are effectuated, under the sway of an 

 extraneous metaphysical Being who governs it in sub- 

 servience to design.^° 



