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hypotheses to the best of our ability, and now offer the results at which we have arrived to the judgment of readers interested in that problem which we deem the most important one of our time-the problem which concerns the distinctness or non-distinctness as to nature, and therefore as to origin, of human reason.

INDEX.

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gesture, 145
ideas, 56, 59

of ripeness, appearance, de-
tection, direction, and surprise, 142
Abstraction, 47, 51, 54, 64, 70

-, power of, not in brutes, 42
Absurd tale about a cockatoo, 136
Accidental acts, 122, 127

unintentional, making of facts
known, 192

Accidentally isolated children and
language, 231

Accoucheur, illustration from, 281
Acquired semiotic value asserted, 283
Acquisitional signs, 123, 127

Actions instantaneous in nature, 12
irrational, of animals, 124
misread, 85

of parrots explained, 154, 161
volitions, and primitive man,

234
Acts, conventional ones, 122, 126,
127

formally and materially inten-
tional, what they are, 122

imitational ones, 124

impulsional ones, 122

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Adjectives and substantives, 248
by position, 248

Adoption of the easiest imaginations,
30

Adumbration of higher natures in
lower, 21, 22, 83

Adverbs and pronouns, 245
Affections, sensuous and cognitive, 59
(sensuous) and ideas, relations
between, 94

Africa, South, and children, 232
Agglutination, 262

Agglutinative language, 231
Agriculture and primitive man, 33
All men are bipeds, meaning of, 257
Alternative, an, may express a con-
junctive sentence, 144

Amalgamation of feelings not an idea,
45
Ambiguity of phrase "Arise out of,"
43

- of the term "conventional," 122
of the term "discriminate," 67
of the term "know," 154
Ambiguous expression, growth of
consciousness, 247

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use of the term seen," 186
use of the word "understand,"
151
Amoeba, psychical principle of, 73
An avowed prejudice of Dr. Weis-

mann, 10

Analogy between flight and thought,
172

indicates discontinuity in evolu-
tion, 14

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Appleyard, 274
Apposition in consciousness, 221, 256
not necessarily assertion, 256,

257

277

with meaning may be assertion,

Apprehension, first, of general cha-
racters by nascent intelligence, 156
of causation by dog, 85

Aprons, etc., pulled by dogs, 132, 153,
164
Apteryx, 108, 113

Aquinas, St. Thomas, 39, 57
Arbitrary signs invented by children,
161

Archdeacon Farrar, 235, 237, 240
Archiepiscopal collie-dog, 78
Arguments, scholastic, against nomi-
nalism, 39

"Arise out of," ambiguity of the
phrase, 43

Aristotelian system of philosophy,
39, 57
Aristotle, 25, 31, 40

and man, 25, 31, 32, 200, 231,
239, 259

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Buffon, and Dureau de la Malle,

Arms of dog and telegraph-post, 220
Art and primitive man, 33

Article of Prof. Max Müller in
Nineteenth Century, 117

Articulate irrational sounds, 120

rational sounds, 121

signs said to be extended by
parrots, 157, 185

ones, 244

the quickest and easiest

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Belt, Mr., and ants in conclave, 130
and tunnelling American

ants, 76
Benson, Miss, and collie-dog, 78
Berkeley, 40, 239

Besetting sin of our day, 299
Best language is the minimum that
expresses clearly, 243
Bestiality of man, 4, 32

Bias of narrators of anecdotes of
animals, 129, 149

Bible, idea of, and ignorant deaf-
mutes, 165

Big-enough-to-be-worth-a-prolonged-
effort, idea of, 49
Binet, M., III, 112

Biological distinction as to poten-
tiality the most important one, 222

Birds talking, 154, 156, 160, 191, 278
Bodily requirements of a rational
animal, 83

Body-begging by monkeys, 134
Bolting a door, illustration from, 67
Born-mutes and Mr. Tylor, 146
Bottle, sight of, and parrot, 155
Boy and apple-tree, tale in gesture,

140

biting his own arm, 204

- striking another, as expressed by
the deaf and dumb, 143

"Box," the term, 244
Bradley, 195

Brain and mind, 219

Bramston, Miss, and collie-dog, 79
Brazil and children, 232

Breaking vocal tones, 286
Breaks in nature, 10

-, no evidence against, 300
of dynamic order, 13
Bridgman, Laura, 166

Bright things and child, 185, 186,
269, 278

British Association at Sheffield, 22
Bronze men and iron men, 217

Brush unscrewed by a monkey, 86
Brute evolved into man, representa-
tion of, 288

Brutes demonstrated of different na-
ture from us by ethics, 273
- dumb, 298

have no ideas, 41

have no power of abstraction, 42
higher than abnormal men may

be, 8
-, rational, and objective contra-
diction, 215

their nature, and Catholicism,

32
Büchner, Prof., and pious bees, 134
Buffon, Aristotle, and Dureau de la
Malle, 24

Bunsen and language, 251

Bushmen, their clicks, 247, 286, 287

C

Cage, illustration from, 268
Caird, Prof., 195

Calculating machine, Babbage's, 175
Caldwell, 274

California and children, 232

Calling of dogs by parrots, 157, 159,
184

Canadian villages and neglected chil-
dren, 232

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