relative frequency; abstract ideas are
slowly formed; multifariousness of sub-conscious operations.

ANTECHAMBER OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Act of thinking analysed; automatic mental work; fluency
of words and of imagery; processes of literary composition;
fluency of spiritual ideas; visionary races of men; morbid
ideas of inspiration (see Enthusiasm).

EARLY SENTIMENTS

Accidents of education, religion, country, etc.; deaf-mutes
and religious ritual; religion in its essentials; all religious
teachers preach faith and instil prejudices; origin of the
faculty of conscience; evolution is always behindhand;
good men of various faiths; the fear of death; terror is
easily taught; gregarious animals (see also 47); suspiciousness
in the children of criminals; Dante and contemporary
artists on the terrors of hell; aversion is easily taught,
Eastern ideas of clean and unclean acts; the foregoing
influences affect entire classes.

HISTORY OF TWINS

It supplies means of comparing the effects of nurture and
nature; physiological signification of twinship; replies to
a circular of inquiries; eighty cases of close resemblance
between twins; the points in which their resemblance was
closest; extracts from the replies; interchangeableness of
likeness; cases of similar forms of insanity in both twins;
their tastes and dispositions; causes of growing dissimilarity
mainly referred to illness; partly to gradual development of
latent elements of dissimilarity; effect of childish illnesses
in permanently checking growth of head; parallel lives and
deaths among twins; necessitarianism; twenty cases of great
dissimilarity; extracts from the replies; evidence of slight
exaggeration; education is almost powerless to diminish
natural difference of character; simile of sticks floating
down a brook; depth of impressions made in childhood;
they are partly due to the ease with which parents and
children understand one another; cuckoos forget the teachings
of their foster-mothers.

DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS

Alternative hypotheses of the prehistoric process of
domestication; savages rear captive animals; instances in
North America; South America; North Africa; Equatorial
Africa; South Africa; Australia; New Guinea Group;
Polynesia; ancient Syria. Sacred animals; menageries
and shows in amphitheatres; instances in ancient Egypt;
Assyria; Rome; Mexico; Peru; Syria and G