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The natural history of Selborne : to which are added the naturalist's calendar, miscellaneous observations, and poems
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London, Printed for C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1825
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top-margin annotation This must be reason, instinct would have led hog to have waited for boar

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top-margin annotation Habitual action, like instinct does not vary, indeed difficult to vary much bitter experience to cure tricks yet curable. so instincts can be altered.—
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top-margin annotation habitual desires & actions go together in Man.— eating dinner Instinctive desires

bottom-margin annotation Habitual desires — appetite at certain times

bottom-margin annotation Instinctive action Habitual action — in sucking both must be brought into play

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top-margin annotation in an habitual action, consciousness of desire which must be preparatory, obliterated

top-margin annotation It is not more wonderful that a desire should be hereditary — than that memory itself should be hereditary. or that taste, mental thought should be so

lines 7—24 annotation In Man an habitual desire may become instinctive or heredetary. ambitious man ambitious children — civilized man. civilized children

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bottom-margin annotation Man scarcely any instinctive actions. Many desires, & therefore many habitual

bottom-margin annotation animals having many instinctive few habitual actions?


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from End Slip annotation 120 sporting Dogs refusing Partridges &c N.Q.


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bottom-margin annotation nothing short of it would make them run out of doors


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