he mouth
of an objector.
{198b} Mr. Herbert Spencer denies that there can be memory without a
"tolerably deliberate succession of psychical states." {198c} So that
practically he denies that there can be any such thing as "unconscious
memory." Nevertheless a few pages later on he says that "conscious
memory passes into unconscious or organic memory." {198d} It is plain,
therefore, that he could after all find no expression better suited for
his purpose.
Mr. Romanes is, I think, right in setting aside Mr. Spencer's limitation
of memory to conscious memory. He writes, "Because I have so often seen
the sun shine that my memory of it as shining has become automatic, I see
no reason why my memory of this fact, simply on account of its
perfection, should be called no memory." {198e}
{198c} Principles of Psychology, I., 447.
{198d} Ibid, p. 452.
{198e} Mental Evolution in Animals, p. 130
{217} Nineteenth Century, Nov. 1878, p. 826.
{218} Encyclopedia Britannica, Art. Biology, 9th ed., Vol. 3, p. 689.
{220a} Professor Huxley, Encycl. Brit., 9th ed., Art. Evolution, p. 750.
{220b} "Hume," by Professor Huxley, p. 45.
{220c} "The Philosophy of Crayfishes," by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop
of Carlisle. Nineteenth Century for October 1880, p. 636.
{221} Les Amours des Plantes, p. 360. Paris, 1800.
{222a} Philosophie Zoologique, tom. i. p. 231. Ed. M. Martin. Paris,
1873.
{222b} Those who read the three following chapters will see that these
words, written in 1880, have come out near the truth in 1884.
{223a} Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society. Williams &
Norgate. 1858, p. 61.
{223b} Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection, 2d ed., 1871,
p. 41.
{223c} Origin of Species, p. I, ed. 1872.
{223d} Origin of Species, 6th ed., p. 206. I ought in fairness to Mr
Darwin to say that he does not hold the error to be quite as serious as
he once did. It is now "a serious error" only; in 1859 it was "most
serious error."--_Origin of Species_, 1st ed., p. 209.
{224} Origin of Species, 1st ed., p. 242; 6th ed., p. 233.
{225a} I never could find what these particular points were.
{225b} Isidore Geoffrey, Hist. Nat. Gen., tom. ii. p. 407, 1859.
{225c} M. Martin's edition of the Philosophie Zoologique (Paris, 1873),
Introduction, p. vi.
{225d} Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., p. 750.
{228a} Kegan Paul & Co., 1883.
{228b} Principles of Psy
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