124 Animal Intelligence. 
‘contains desire, sense-impression, impulse, act and possible 
representations. Like it, the former is learned gradually. 
‘Moreover, the associations concerned cannot be formed 
by imitation. One ae not know how to dive just by see- 
ing another man dive. You cannot form them from being 
put through them, though, of course, this helps indirectly, 
in a way that it does not with animals, One makes use of 
no feelings of a common element, no “perceptions of simi- 
larity. | The tennis player does not feel, ‘This ball coming 
at this angle and with this speed is similar in angle, though 
not in speed, to that other ball of an hour ago, therefore I 
will hit it in a similar way.”? ' He simply feels an impulse 
from the sense-impression| Finally, the elements of the 
associations are not isolated. No tennis player’s stream of 
thought is filled with free-floating representations of any 
of the tens of thousands of sense-impressions or move- 
ments he has seen and made on the tennis court. | Yet there 
is consciousness enough at the time, keen consciousness of 
the sense-impressions, impulses, feelings of one’s bodily acts. 
So with the animals. There is consciousness enough, but 
of this kind. 
\ Thus, the associations in human life, which compare with 
the simple connections learned by animals, are associations | 
involving connections between novel, complex and often 
inconstant sense-impressions and impulses to acts similarly 
novel, complex and often inconstant. | Man has the ele- 
ments of most of his associations in isolated form, attended 
to separately, possessed as a permanent fund, recallable at 
will, and multifariously connected among themselves, but 
an approximate homologue of the process in animals. He feels discomfort, 
certain impulses to flounder around, some of which are the right ones to 
move his body to the shore. The pleasure which follows stamps in these, 
and gradually the proper movements are made immediately on feeling the 
sense-impression of surrounding water. 
