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CHAPTEE IV.* 



Without raising the unprofitable question how Mr. 

 Eomanes, in spite of the indifference with which he 

 treated the theory of Inherited Memory in 1881, 

 came, in 1883, to be sufficiently imbued with a sense 

 of its importance, I still cannot afford to dispense 

 with the weight of his authority, and in this chapter 

 will show how closely he not infrequently approaches 

 the Heringian position. 



Thus, he says that the analogies between the memory 

 with which we are familiar in daily life and hereditary 

 memory " are so numerous and precise " as to justify 

 us in considering them to be of essentially the same 

 kind.t 



Again, he says that although the memory of milk 

 shown by new-born infants is " at all events in large 

 part hereditary, it is none the less memory " of a cer- 

 tain kind.| 



Two lines lower down he writes of " hereditary 



* This chapter is taken almost entirely from my book, " Selections, 

 &c. and Bem£^rks on Romanes' ' Mental Evolution in Animals.' " 

 Triibner, 1884. 



t Mental Evolution in Animals, p. 113. J Ibid. p. iie 



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