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A race, we are told, unclothed, walking erect, gregarious, without a true language, to a limited extent tool-using, destitute of marriage, government, or any institution; animal, but in virtue of its relatively high moral nature (making it gregarious)

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and its highly developed perceptual intelligence, king of animals, developed self consciousness, and by that fact became man. It is impossible to say how long ago it was when this event occurred, but it could not have been less than several hundred thousand years.

This faculty is lost much more easily than is simple consciousness. We lose it in coma and also often in the delirium of fever; in certain forms of insanity, as in mania, it is often lost for weeks and months at a time; lastly, it is never present in dreams.

The color sense has been already considered. It remains to say a few words from the present point of view. It comes into existence gradually in the individual--at three or four years there may be a trace of it.

At eight years of age, it was found by Jeffries still absent in a large percentage of children. Twenty to thirty percent. of schoolboys are said to be color-blind, while only four percent. of adult males are so.

Dr. Favre, of Lyons reported in 1874 to the French Congress for the Advancement of Science, at Lille, "some observations that seemed to him to prove that congenital color-blindness was curable", but it does not seem to have occurred to him that the color sense,

being invariably absent in very young children, and making its appearance at a variable age, as the child advances toward maturity, color blindness would necessarily appear to the teacher, watching the development of the child and exercising its sense of sight upon colors,

to be "cured." We have seen above that the color sense in the race cannot be many tens of thousands of years old.
Color sense is absent in one human being out of every forty-seven. It is seldom present in dreams, and when it does occur, that is, when any color is seen in a dream,

it is generally that color which for good reasons was first perceived by man, namely, red.
The following occurrence illustrates (in a striking manner) the usual absence of the color sense during the partial consciousness which occurs in sleep.

A man whose hair is white dreamed that he was looking in a glass and saw plainly that his hair was
not only much thicker than he knew it to be in fact, but instead of being white, as he also knew it to be, it was black.

Now he well remembered in his dream that his hair had never been black. It had, in fact, been a light brown. He wondered (it is worth mentioning here that wonder or surprise is a prehuman faculty, and is common in dreams) in his dream that his hair should be black,

remembering distinctly that it had never been so. The important thing to note about the dream under consideration is that, though it was clear to the dreamer's mind that his hair had never been black, yet he did not remember that it had been brown.

For some reason there was a difficulty in calling up before consciousness any color. The same man dreamed that he had wounded with a knife an enemy who had attacked him; the bleeding was profuse but the blood was white; he knew in his dream that it should not be white,

but no image of its true color or of any color presented itself.
The human moral nature includes many faculties, such as conscience, the abstract sense of right and wrong, sexual love as distinguished from sexual desire or instinct, parental

and filial love as distinguished from the corresponding instincts (man has both these instincts in common with the brutes as well as the higher feelings), love of our fellow men as such, love of the beautiful, awe,

Richard M. Bucke