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MENTAL EVOLUTION IN MAN
By the same Author.
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JELLY-FISH, STAR-FISH, AND SEA-URCHINS.
Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems.
[International Scientific Series.
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ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE.
Fourth Edition.
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MENTAL EVOLUTION IN ANIMALS.
Second Thousand.
With a Posthumous Essay on Instinct by
Charles Darwin, F.R.S.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.
MENTAL EVOLUTION IN MAN
ORIGIN OF HUMAN FACULTY
BY
GEORGE JOHN ROMANES, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1888
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PREFACE.
In now carrying my study of mental evolution into theprovince of human psychology, it is desirable that I shouldsay a few words to indicate the scope and intention of thisthe major portion of my work. For it is evident that “MentalEvolution in Man” is a subject comprehending so enormousa field that, unless some lines of limitation are drawn withinwhich its discussion is to be confined, no one writer couldpresume to deal with it.
The lines, then, which I have laid down for my ownguidance are these. My object is to seek for the principlesand causes of mental evolution in man, first as regardsthe origin of human faculty, and next as regards the severalmain branches into which faculties distinctively human afterwardsramified and developed. In order as far as possibleto gain this object, it has