fairly, I shall continue to report its developments from time to
time as long as life and health are spared me. Moreover, Ishmaels
are not without their uses, and they are not a drug in the market
just now.

I may now go on to Mr. Spencer.



CHAPTER II--MR. HERBERT SPENCER



Mr. Herbert Spencer wrote to the Athenaeum (April 5, 1884), and
quoted certain passages from the 1855 edition of his "Principles of
Psychology," "the meanings and implications" from which he contended
were sufficiently clear. The passages he quoted were as follows:-

Though it is manifest that reflex and instinctive sequences are not
determined by the experiences of the INDIVIDUAL organism manifesting
them, yet there still remains the hypothesis that they are
determined by the experiences of the RACE of organisms forming its
ancestry, which by infinite repetition in countless successive
generations have established these sequences as organic relations
(p. 526).

The modified nervous tendencies produced by such new habits of life
are also bequeathed (p. 526).

That is to say, the tendencies to certain combinations of psychical