I. Fish IV. Mammals V. Birds II. Batracians a. Monotremata x. Primates: III. Reptiles b. Marsupials (Lemurs, Monkeys, c. Edentates Men) d. Rodents y. Carnivora: e. Insectivora (latest arrivals: f. -- -- blue fox, white g. -- -- -- bear) h. -- -- -- z. Ruminants: -- -- -- (last arrival: -- -- -- reindeer) The bearing of this list upon any question whatsoever of general philosophy is evident for all who know how to disassociate ideas. It would have thrilled Voltaire. For the rest, I claim the honour of having been the first to announce to the larger public these new scientific views, which will, logically, have a magnificent wealth of consequences. I have already made a less precise allusion to them, notably in the _Wiener Rundschau_, May 1899. [2] Intelligence can thus be conceived as an initial form of instinct, in which case the human intelligence would be destined to crystallize into instinct, as has occurred in the case of other animal species. Consciousness would disappear, leaving complete liberty to the unconscious act, necessarily perfect in the limits of its intention. The conscious man is a scholar who will reveal himself a master the moment he has become a delicate but unerring machine, like bee and beaver. [3] _La Survivance de l'Ame et l'idée de justice chez les peuples non civilisés_, Paris, Leroux, 1894. [4] _Des Réputations littéraires: Essai de morale et d'histoire_. Première série. Paris, Hachette, 1893. [5] _Livres perdus: Essai bibliographique sur les livres devenus introuvables_, by Philoumeste Junior, Brussels, 1882. [6] These privately printed editions of three hundred copies or less have necessarily been worn out in proportion to their success. [7] _Opera et Fragmenta veterorum poetarum latinorum_. London, 1713 [8] Opus cit., p. 103. [9] This was written on the appearance of M. Louis Proal's work, _Le Crime et le Suicide Passionnels_ (F. Alcan, 1910), in which, referring to sex dramas in the criminal courts, Racine is quoted, every ten pages, for reference and comparison. Everyone hesitates to say just what an age of passion and of carnal madness the _Grand Siècle_ really was. [10] _L'Étang_. This poem forms part of the set of five odes in which Racine celebrated Port-Royal des Champs: _L'Étang, Les Prairies, Les Bois, Les Troupeaux, Les Jardins_. [11] _Le Promenoir des Deux Amans_. [12] Vapereau, _Dictionnaire des Littératures_. [13] An excellent doctor's thesis on Tristan l'Hermite, by M. V. M. Demadin, bears precisely this title: _Un précurseur de Racine_. [14] The first volume, and that alone, of Restif de la Bretonne's _Monsieur Nicholas_ should be excepted.