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Richard M. Bucke Psychogenesis of Man
Illustrated by a few faculties
Extracted from chart on page 43 of Cosmic Consciousness
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| Faculty | Appearance in a Man | Absent in proportion now | Appearance in the Race | How Far Back Prehuman forms | How Easily Lost |
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| Name of Faculty | Approximate Average Age of Appearance in Man | Absent in what proportion of Adult Members of Race at Present Time | Time of Appearance of Faculty in Race | How far back does Faculty Reach into Prehuman forms? | With what Degree of Facility is the Faculty Lost in Man? |
| Memory | Few days after birth | None | Prehuman | To the Echinodermata | Only lost in deep sleep and coma; present in dreams |
| Simple Consciousness | Few days after birth | None | Prehuman | To the Echinodermata | Only lost in deep sleep and coma; present in dreams |
| Curiosity | Ten weeks | None | Prehuman | Insects and spiders | Only lost in deep sleep and coma; present in dreams |
| Use of Tools | Twelve months | None | Prehuman | Monkeys | Present in dreams |
| Shame | Fifteen months | None | Prehuman | Anthropoid apes and dogs | Present in dreams |
| Remorse | Fifteen months | None | Prehuman | Anthropoid apes and dogs | Present in dreams |
| Sense of Ludicrous | Fifteen months | None | Prehuman | Anthropoid apes and dogs | Present in dreams |
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Self
Consciousness |
Three years | In 1 in 1,000 | 300,000 years ago | Peculiar to man | Lost in coma, delirium, often in mania ; never present in dreams |
| Color Sense | Four years | In 1 in 47 | 30,000 or 40,000 years ago | Not in man's progenitors | Seldom present in dreams |
| Sense of Fragrance | Five years | ? | ? | Not in man's progenitors | Not present in dreams |
| Human Moral Nature | Fifteen years | In 1 in 20 or 25 | 10,000 years ago | Peculiar to man | Unstable—easily and constantly lost; not present in dreams |
| Musical Sense | Eighteen years | In more than half | Less than 5,000 years ago | Not in man's progenitors | Only occasionally present; hardly ever present in dreams, even in case of musicians |
| Cosmic Consciousness | Thirty-five years | In all but one in many millions | Just dawning now | Peculiar to man | Only present few seconds to few hours in any case; then passes away of itself |