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AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
VoL. xvi.— SEPTEMBER, 1883.—No. 9. 
THE EVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN 
CHARACTER}! 
BY E. D. COPE, 
HE complicated constitution of the human mind is well im- 
pressed on the investigator as he seeks to understand the 
` Origin of any one of the many different types of character which 
come before him. The number of possible combinations of its 
numerous elements, each of which present developmental phases, 
is necessarily very great. The species of human minds, as one 
may properly term them, are probably as numerous as the species 
of animals, as defined by their physical structure. As in the case 
of anatomical species, however, analysis of the mind reduces its 
many details to a few leading departments. Although the classi- 
fication of the elements of the mind is a classification of func- 
tions; it is, if correct, a sure index of the classification of struc- 
ture also; of the grosser and more minute structure of the brain, 
Principally of the gray matter. 
The division of mental activities into three primary divisions 
is, generally admitted. These are: the emotions, the intellect and 
the will. The emotions include the likes and dislikes, or the 
tastes, and their strongest forms, the emotions and the passions. 
The intellect includes those powers which rearrange the experi- 
ences in an order different from that in which they enter the 
mind. This new order may have sole reference to questions of 
liking and disliking, and is then a product of the imagination ; 
or it may be a result of experience of the laws of pure necessity, 
+ The present. article is in continuation of the previous one on the Evolutionary 
igni of Human Physiognomy, published in the NATURALIST of June, 1883. 
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