in regarding this substratum as the same both in ganglionic or
organic, and in the conscious or psychological memory, seeing that
the analogies between them are so numerous and precise.
Consciousness is but an adjunct which arises when the physical
processes, owing to infrequency of repetition, complexity of
operation, or other causes, involve what I have before called
ganglionic friction."

I submit that I have correctly translated Mr. Romanes' meaning, and
also that we have a right to complain of his not saying what he has
to say in words which will involve less "ganglionic friction" on the
part of the reader.

Another example may be found on p. 43 of Mr. Romanes' book.
"Lastly," he writes, "just as innumerable special mechanisms of
muscular co-ordinations are found to be inherited, innumerable
special associations of ideas are found to be the same, and in one
case as in the other the strength of the organically imposed
connection is found to bear a direct proportion to the frequency
with which in the history of the species it has occurred."

Mr. Romanes is here intending what the reader will find insisted on
on p. 51 of "Life and Habit;" but how difficult he has made what
could have been said intelligibly enough, if there had been nothing
but the reader's comfort to be considered. Unfortunately that seems
to have been by no means the only thing of which Mr. Romanes was
thinking, or why, after implying and even saying over and over again
that instinct is inherited habit due to inherited memory, should he
turn sharply round on p. 297 and praise Mr. Darwin for trying to
snuff out "the well-known doctrine of inherited habit as advanced by