[81] Professor Hartog tells me that this probably refers to Fritz Müller’s formulation of the “recapitulation process” in “Facts for Darwin,” English edition (1869), p. 114.—R.A.S.
[82] This is the passage which makes me suppose Professor Hering to mean that vibrations from exterior objects run into vibrations already existing within the living body, and that the accession to power thus derived is his key to an explanation of the physical basis of action.
[84] I interpret this: “There are fewer vibrations persistent within the bodies of the lower animals; those that there are, therefore, are stronger and more capable of generating action or upsetting the status in quo. Hence also they require less accession of vibration from without. Man is agitated by more and more varied vibrations; these, interfering, as to some extent they must, with one another, are weaker, and therefore require more accession from without before they can set the mechanical adjustments of the body in motion.”
[89] I am obliged to Mr. Sully for this excellent translation of “Hellsehen.”
[90a] Westminster Review, New Series, vol. xlix. p. 143.
[90b] Ibid., p. 145.
[90c] Ibid., p. 151.
[92a] “Instinct ist zweckmässiges Handeln ohne Bewusstsein des Zwecks.”—Philosophy of the Unconscious, 3d ed., Berlin, 1871, p. 70.
[92b] “1. Eine blosse Folge der körperlichen Organisation.
“2. Ein von der Natur eingerichteter Gehirn-oder Geistesmechanismus.