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As these authors have contributed importantly to our knowledge of the behavior of monkeys, their discussions of the meaning of terms are especially valuable. Serviceable definitions are to be found, also, in Romanes , Morgan , Washburn , and Holmes . Evidences of Ideation in Monkeys Aside from anecdotal and traveller's notes on the behavior of monkeys and apes we have only a scanty literature.
As the book went on, I saw I was on firm ground, and the paradox was dropped. When I found what Professor Hering had done, I put him forward as best I could at once. I then learned German, and translated him, giving his words in full in "Unconscious Memory;" since then I have always spoken of the theory as Professor Hering's. Mr. Few except Mr. Romanes will say this.
Romanes also says that the theory connecting instinct with inherited memory "has since been independently 'suggested' by many writers." A little lower Mr. We can only answer, of the same kind, whatever this may be, as that upon which the old bird depends." I have given above most of the more marked passages which I have been able to find in Mr.
He says: "We are assured that the thoughts were written down by the English naturalist George John Romanes"; and again: "The thoughts are published by a Canon of Westminster, Charles Gore, to whom they are said to have been handed over after the death of Romanes in the year 1894." Then he has the audacity to place Romanes in quotation marks.
Romanes' letter to the Athenaeum of this day, and get this postscript pasted into the book after binding. Mr. Canon Kingsley's words are to be found in Fraser, June, 1867, and are as follows: A duty was laid on him to go back to the place where he was bred, and now it is done, and he is weary and sad and lonely, &c. &c.
Romanes, during his college days, came under the influence of those who worshipped the reason and this worship led him out into a starless night. Have we not a right to demand something more than guesses, surmises, and hypotheses before we exchange the "hallowed glory" of the Christian creed for "the lonely mystery of existence" as Romanes found it?
Where speech is wanting, it is still possible to follow a conscious and imaginative process of reasoning, but not to rise to the higher abstract ideas which may be generated by such reasoning. The thought of deaf-mutes always assumes the most concrete form, and one who was educated late in life informed Romanes that he had always before thought in images.
J. Seth, in his Study of Ethical Principles, concludes from Mr. Huxley's Romanes lecture that "agnosticism could scarcely have been the final resting place for such a mind". I have ventured to repeat here a portion of the argument set forth in the chapter on "Ethics and Theism".
My dog has lived fewer years in the world than I have passed in Wales, but he knows just about as much English as I know Welsh, and has acquired it just in the same way. Mr. Romanes, have again called attention to the interesting subject of instinct in animals.
Darwin did during the later years of his life. Mr. Romanes' words, in fact, amount to an unqualified acceptance of the chapter "Instinct as Inherited Memory" given in "Life and Habit," of which Mr. Romanes in March 1884 wrote in terms which it is not necessary to repeat. Later on: "That 'practice makes perfect' is a matter, as I have previously said, of daily observation. From this Mr.
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