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. A gesture, 145 of ripeness, appearance, de- -, power of, not in brutes, 42 unintentional, making of facts Accidentally isolated children and Accoucheur, illustration from, 281 Actions instantaneous in nature, 12 of parrots explained, 154, 161 234 formally and materially inten- imitational ones, 124 impulsional ones, 122 Adjectives and substantives, 248 Adoption of the easiest imaginations, Adumbration of higher natures in Adverbs and pronouns, 245 Africa, South, and children, 232 Agglutinative language, 231 Amalgamation of feelings not an idea, - of the term "conventional," 122 use of the term seen," 186 mann, 10 Analogy between flight and thought, indicates discontinuity in evolu- Appleyard, 274 257 277 with meaning may be assertion, Apprehension, first, of general cha- Aprons, etc., pulled by dogs, 132, 153, Aquinas, St. Thomas, 39, 57 Archdeacon Farrar, 235, 237, 240 "Arise out of," ambiguity of the Aristotelian system of philosophy, and man, 25, 31, 32, 200, 231, Buffon, and Dureau de la Malle, Arms of dog and telegraph-post, 220 Article of Prof. Max Müller in Articulate irrational sounds, 120 rational sounds, 121 signs said to be extended by ones, 244 the quickest and easiest Belt, Mr., and ants in conclave, 130 ants, 76 Besetting sin of our day, 299 Bias of narrators of anecdotes of Bible, idea of, and ignorant deaf- Big-enough-to-be-worth-a-prolonged- Biological distinction as to poten- Birds talking, 154, 156, 160, 191, 278 Body-begging by monkeys, 134 140 biting his own arm, 204 - striking another, as expressed by "Box," the term, 244 Brain and mind, 219 Bramston, Miss, and collie-dog, 79 Breaking vocal tones, 286 -, no evidence against, 300 Bright things and child, 185, 186, British Association at Sheffield, 22 Brush unscrewed by a monkey, 86 Brutes demonstrated of different na- have no ideas, 41 have no power of abstraction, 42 be, 8 their nature, and Catholicism, 32 Bunsen and language, 251 Bushmen, their clicks, 247, 286, 287 C Cage, illustration from, 268 Calculating machine, Babbage's, 175 California and children, 232 Calling of dogs by parrots, 157, 159, Canadian villages and neglected chil- |