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instinctive application of the organ is independent of 

 experience, and forms part of a train of pure sensations. 

 ORN. — I have no objection to the statement you 

 make of my view of the subject; but I certainly 

 should give to it a little more refinement and gene- 

 rality. In all the results of reason, ideas are con- 

 cerned, but never in those of instinct. Without 

 memory there can be no reason; but in instinct 

 nothing can be traced but pure sensation. 



POIET. — Though in the animal world no ideas 

 seem connected with instincts, yet they are all 

 intended for specific and intelligent ends. Thus the 

 swallow travels to a country where flies are found ; the 

 salmon migrates from the sea to the sources of fresh 

 rivers, where its eggs may receive a supply of aerated 

 water, and without this migration the race would be 

 extinct : and in this way all the instincts of animals 

 may be referred to intelligence, which, though not 

 belonging to the animal, must be attributed to the 

 Divine Mind. Is it not then reasonable to refer 

 instinct to the immediate impulse of the Author of 

 Nature upon his creatures ? His omnipresence and 

 omnipoteuce cannot be doubted, and to the Infinite 

 Mind the past, the present, and the future are alike ; 

 and creative and conservative power must equally 

 belong to it. 



HAL, — That instincts depend upon impulses imme- 



