[346] The four segments might be as 4: 2: 2: 1; or as 9: 6: 6: 4; or generally, as a: ar: ar: ar2.
Hence the mind Reason receives
Intuitive or Discursive.
Milton.
[348] τῇ τοῦ διαλέγεσθαι δυνόμει.
[349] This term occurs in other parts of Aristotle. See the additional Note.
[350] Mr. Owen, to whom I am indebted for the physiological part of this criticism, tells me, "All mammalia have bile, the carnivora in greater proportion than the herbivora: the gall-bladder is a comparatively unimportant accessory to the biliary apparatus; adjusting it to certain modifications of stomach and intestine: there is no relation between natural longevity and bile. Neither has the presence or absence of the gall-bladder any connexion with age. Man and the elephant are perhaps for their size the longest lived animals, and the latest at coming to maturity: one has the gall-bladder, and the other not."
[351] Hist. Sc. Ind. b. iii.
[352] These remarks were written in 1841. The accompanying Memoir contains a further discussion of this problem.
[353] Cartes. Princip. iv. 23.