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is upholding the same opinions as Professor Hering's 

 and my own, but their effect and tendency is more 

 plain here than in Mr. Eomanes' own book, where 

 they are overlaid by nearly 400 long pages of matter 

 which is not always easy of comprehension. 



Moreover, at the same time that I claim the weight 

 of Mr. Eomanes' authority, I am bound to admit that 

 I do not find his support satisfactory. The late Mr. 

 Darwin himself — whose mantle seems to have fallen 

 more especially and particularly on Mr. Eomanes — 

 could not contradict himself more hopelessly than 

 Mr. Eomanes often does. Indeed in one of the very 

 passages I have quoted in order to show that Mr. 

 Eomanes accepts the phenomena of heredity as pheno- 

 mena of memory, he speaks of " heredity as playing an 

 important part in forming memory of ancestral experi- 

 ences ; " so that, whereas I want him to say that the 

 phenomena of heredity are due to memory, he will 

 have it that the memory is due to the heredity, 

 which seems to me absurd. 



Over and over again Mr. Eomanes insists that it is 

 heredity which does this or that. Thus it is "heredity 

 with natural selection which adapt the anatomical plan 

 of the ganglia." * It is heredity which impresses 

 nervous changes on the individual. t "In the lifetime 

 of species actions originally intelligent may by fre- 

 quent repetition and heredity," &c. ;| but he nowhere 

 tells us what heredity is any more than Messrs. Her- 

 bert Spencer, Darwin, and Lewes have done. This, 



* Mental Evolution in Animals, p. 33. Nov. 1883. 

 + Ihid. p. 116. tjbid. p. 178. 



