HABIT AND INTELLIGENCE.
[re TILE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR:.] SIR, —In your review of the new edition of my "Habit and Intelligence" (May 31st), you find an inconsistency between these two passages :—" The mind of man is not distinct from the material world in the midst of which it is placed, but is the highest product of the forces of that world." " It is in accord- ance with all the analogies of creation, if the Creative Power which at the beginning created matter, and afterwards gave it life, finally, when the action of that life had developed the bodily frame and the instinctive mental powers of man, com- pleted the work by breathing into man a breath of higher and spiritual life."
If these two passages contradict each other, the second is the
one I abide by. I do not profess Monism, at least not such Monism as Haeckel's. He appears to think life a resultant from chemical forces, intelligence a resultant from unintelligent forces, and spiritual intelligence a mere development of in- stinctive intelligence,—with none of which positions do I agree.
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