The nature of animal activities 415 The outer and inner aspect 417 The inherited organization 419 Habitual activities 420 Instinctive activities 422 Innate capacity 426 Blind prevision 429 Consciousness and instinct 432 Mr. Romanes's treatment of instinct 434 Lapsed intelligence and modern views on heredity 435 Three factors in the origin of instinctive activities 447 The emotional basis of instinct 449 The influence of intelligence on instinct 452 The characteristics of intelligent activities 456 The place of volition 459 Perceptual and conceptual volition 460 Consciousness and consentience 461 Classification of activities 462 CHAPTER XII. MENTAL EVOLUTION. Is mind evolved from matter? 464 Kinesis and metakinesis 467 Monistic assumptions 470 The nature of ejects 476 The universe as eject 478 Metakinetic environment of mind 481 Conceptual ideas not subject to natural selection 483 Elimination through incongruity 486 Interneural evolution 490 Interpretations of nature 492 Can fetishism have had a natural genesis? 493 The origin of interneural variations 496 Are acquired variations inherited? 497 Summary and conclusion 501 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. FIG. PAGE