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assumes a direct, instinctive character the appropriate action evidently follows the sensitive impression without any intervention of judgment. The young of the partridge hide themselves instantly on the first intrusion. Barn fowls are filled with immoderate and universal alarm as the shadow of the hawk glides by them. The actions of the lower creation assume generally this direct dependence on sensations, with an occasional intervention of the intellectual element of association.

Having now the emotions completely before us in their relation to the mind and to each other, we are better able to decide on the merits of that theory which recognizes but two classes, resolving the spiritual feelings into the intellectual. This will hardly seem possible, if we fairly estimate all that belongs to the intuitive emotions. These higher sentiments so percolate downward, so tinge secondary feelings, giving them a new character and value, that it is difficult to analyze out the purely physical sensibilities, and to see how far these, with the action of the intellectual faculties upon 'them, can be made the foundation of our rich', emotional endowments. "When, with the utilitarian, we undertake honestly to construct our entire spiritual constitution from these purely physical elements, we have a heavy labor laid upon us. Not - only must the primary sense of truth, of beauty, and of obligation, be laid aside, all the affections which spring from them must be dismissed, and also that esthetical or ethical quality or flavor which inevitably pervades intellectual emotions, whose staple is physical pleasure. A rogue will pride himself on a certain honor, whose fiber and force are found in single threads of morality. A clown is vain of possessions, whose excellence consists largely in beauties hidden in great part from him.

Do this work of analysis thoroughly, separate carefully out all but strictly physical feelings, and we shall find remaining