ABSTRACT
Language and religion, the family, the gang following a leader, arise of themselves, before anyone has noticed or desired them. How indeed could they have been planned or desired when no one as yet had experience of anything that could suggest such notions? When, however, these things have arisen and perhaps assumed rival forms, attention is attracted to them; the sense of a double possibility, of a compulsion to choose, enables a man to say that the one preferred is better than the other. His instinct now operates in the light of ideas; he is conscious of what he is doing; perhaps he plumes himself on his action and boastfully bids everyone observe him (as children do in their feats). He feels a disposition steadily to repeat what he has done, and to demand that others should do likewise: and in this case he would be said to act according to free will and reason and an idea of the best.
