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furthering this wished for object it is of consequence that unani* 

 mity should prevail, and every additional aid, however differing 

 in mode or quality, should be invited into the common service. 

 The spirit of inquiry has gone forth, and the true and disin- 

 terested well wisher of the science should hail with triumph 

 every light that may illuminate its progress, and every effort that 

 may speed it on its way. 



[To be continued,'\ 



Art. XLIV. An Inquiry respecting the true nature of 

 Instinct, and of the Mental Distinction between Brute 

 Animals and Man. — Essay II. — An Examination of the 

 prevailing division of the Brute Powers into Intellectual 

 and Instinctive, as presented, in some recent publications, 

 hy the Rev. Dr. Fleming, and by M. Frederic Cuvier; 

 including Strictures on the Theory of Habit proposed by 

 the latter : with illustrations of the Specific Constitution 

 of the Brute Mind. By John Oliver French, Esq. 



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There is then a marked analogy, though no affinity, between 

 human habit and that class of brute instinct which may, from its 

 uniformity, be usefully distinguished by the term invariable in- 

 stinct. In this instinct, and also in human habit, there appears 

 to be essentially an intelligent power, however in the case of Man 

 this power may be perverted or misdirected : here then is the 

 ground of analogy. But the essential intelligence in human habit, 

 however it may be warped or perverted by the disorderly prone- 

 ness of the will, or a wrong education, and employed in the pro- 

 duction of disorderly acts, (a circumstance arising from man's 

 freedom,) is a proper attribute of Man ; as is proved by the 

 different developcment and formation of the human compared 

 with the brute mindj and this may be illustrated satisfactorily by 



