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which most sharply distinguish man, and have 

 raised him above the unmoral and irreligious 

 lower animal. They, not an opposable thumb or 

 ounces of brain, are the real human character- 

 istics. It is certainly reasonable to expect that 

 they will dominate progressive man in the future 

 as they have raised him to his present condition. 



In our study of the origin of family and social 

 life we have seen that these conceptions of duty 

 and unselfishness are rooted in and sprang from 

 mammalian structure. May we not say that In 

 a sense they have become Incarnate in the human 

 brain? Let us look into this question a little 

 closer. 



The young bee does not need to be taught 

 how to build a cell ; he inherits the tendency and 

 most of the necessary knowledge. The same is 

 true of a host of other instincts. The shepherd 

 dog and the bird dog brought up in the house 

 apart from birds and sheep went, the one after 

 the sheep and the other after birds, as soon as 

 turned loose in the fields. The stimulus of the 

 appropriate object was all that was necessary to 

 rouse the slumbering inherited Instinct In the 

 brain. 



Instinct Is inherited, but Intelligence Is the rc- 



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