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ihat it should not be thought that, in contending that 

 intelligence was not reason, he wished in any way to 

 -disparage intelligence — nine-tenths of the actions of average 

 men were intelligent but not rational. There were hundreds 

 -and thousands of practical men who were in the highest 

 ■degree intelligent, but in whom the rational faculty was but 

 little developed. Was it, he asl^ed, any injustice to the 

 brutes to contend that their inferences were of the same 

 order as those of these excellent practical folk? In any 

 case, no injustice was intended. If he denied them self- 

 consciousness and reason, he granted to the higher animals 

 perceptions of marvellous acateness and intelligent in- 

 ferebcs of wonderful accuracy and precision. 



