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Aimé Martin de l'Education des Mères Vol 1, p. 198.— "Moralité, raison, beau ideal, infini conscience; voilà l'homme separe de la matière et du temps! voila les facultes, q'il possede seul sur la terre. J'ai trouvé son âme" &c—

Confesses these faculties of soul, treating of infinite not definable.— His little chapter on each faculty of Soul.— (1) Conscience moral sentiments imperative sense of duty— which makes struggle in man.— two souls in one body— (2) Beau ideal, refers chiefly to moral, beau desires conscience & love.— (With regard to ordinary Beau ideal. Mem. Negro, beau,— Jeffrey denies all Beau.— How does Hen determine which most beautiful cock, which best singer—

Remember— avarice a compounded passion gained in life time) 3. The Infinite.— lives by hopes, looks

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to eternity. (4) Reason, some transcendental kind— (5) Conscience, not clear— Then these last heads of separation between soul of man & intellect of beasts, not clear.— ? does not Mackintosh make great difference between moral sense & conscience?— we admire what is right by one & are ordered to do it by other.—

I suspect conscience an hereditary compound passion, like avarice. —

Is there not something analogous to imperiousness of Conscience: in Maternal instinct domineering over love of Master & sport &c &c— The Bitch does not so act, because maternal instinct gives most pleasure but because most imperious.—

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It would indeed be wonderful, if mind of animal was not closely allied to that of men: when the five senses were the same— In its action— emotions— p. 176 & 177 good passage in French on what dog dreams, awakes— does when Master takes Hatde l'education des Meres par L Aimé Martin