ABSTRACT

Of such complex co-ordination directly resulting from a complex stimulus, the people have abundant illustration in themselves. The implication is, therefore, that in proportion as instinct is developed, some kind of consciousness becomes nascent. To the outer relation between a moving opacity and a living solid body, is now added a relation of position: and not only a relation of position, but one of magnitude; seeing that the effect is not the same when a large as when a small object is presented. Duly observing that the corollary from the experience-hypothesis is in conformity with the facts, so far as they are accessible to the reader, let the reader go on to observe some important inferences that are deducible from it. The actions will begin to lose their distinctly automatic character.