CHAPTER IV. 



Life and Consciousness. — Consciousness and Emotion. — Emo- 

 tion and Thought. — Thought and Expression. — Expression 

 and Speech. — The Vocal Organs and Sound. — Speech in 

 City and Country. — Music, Passions, and Taste.— Life and 

 Reason. 



At the beginning of life there is a conscious- 

 ness which is not more feeble than is the life 

 with which it is associated, and as that spark of 

 life kindles into a flame, so that spark of con- 

 sciousness kindles into the "ego," and nowhere 

 can a line be drawn at which it may be said, 

 " Here consciousness first intercepted life." But 

 as the living form develops organs and mem- 

 bers through the agency of the vital force, what- 

 ever that may be, so consciousness develops into 

 desires, emotion, and thought. Where shall the 

 line be drawn which separates these attributes? 



Standing in the centre, we look around and see 



the horizon touching the plain on every side, and 



this appears to us as a great circle, the centre of 



which is always occupied by the observer, and 



from our standpoint we imagine that everything 

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