908 Evolutionary Significance of Human Character. [September, 
without regard to questions of taste; then it is a process of rea- 
son. The will, properly so-called, is the spontaneous power of 
the mind by which the other processes are originated, directed 
or restrained. The range of the will, and even its existence, 
are questions of dispute. 
Below and behind these mental activities lies sensibility or con- 
sciousness, in its forms of general and special sensation ; that is, 
touch, and hearing, taste, smell, sight, and the muscular sense, 
with many others, concomitants of both health and disease, Itis 
well understood that these primitive mental qualities are more or 
less developed in animals, in which the more purely mental func- 
tions are rudimental. The doctrine of evolution teaches that from 
this class the higher activities of the mind have been developed, 
during long ages, through the agency of memory. The nature 
of the present essay only permits a casual reference to the aston- 
ishing character of memory, and the remark that its phenomena 
demonstrate most clearly, of all others, that mind is an attribute 
of some kind of matter. 
If we now consider these natural divisions of the mind as they 
present themselves in the combinations which we call hutas 
character, we shall observe a variety in the mode of their action 
which pervades all divisions alike. These variations fall under 
two heads, those of guantity and of quality. 
Thus as to quantity; one human mind may present a grem 
amount of intellectual than emotional activity ; of imaginative 
than rational intellection; of affectionate than irascible emo- 
tion; of gastronomic than musical taste, etc., etc. The quantity 
here indicated is probably an index of the proportion d 
tissue devoted to the functions mentioned, The intensity 
force of the action is a matter of quality. a 
Of qualities the variety is much larger. They are gee 
lel to those of inorganic force, and suggest the same kind i 
ifications of the material bases, as those which effect one : 
Two prominent qualities are fineness and coarseness. inen a 
observes and uses detail in both rational and emotive acts, 4” w 
essential to the precision of finish. Coarseness neglects deta, by 
deals with the gross of things, and is sometimes acco ik good. 
largeness of quantity. When it is not, the result 1S mallee 
Fineness is, on the other hand, often associated with | ae 
It is a more feminine attribute, while coarseness 15 more ma: u 
