" But I see auotlier law in my members warring against tlie law of my 

 mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, whicli is in my 

 members."— Romans, chap. vii. ver. 23. 



" But mind this : the more we observe and study, the wider the range 

 of the automatic and instinctive principles in body and mind and morals, 

 and the narrower the limits of the self-determining, conscious move- 

 ment."— Holmes, Autocrat of Breakfast Table, p. 95. 



" As dependent upon bodily organization, as actuated by sensual pro- 

 pensities and animal wants [man], belongs to matter, and, in this re- 

 spect, he is the slave of necessity. But what man holds of matter does 

 not make up his personality. * * * He is conscious to himself of facul- 

 ties not comprised in the chain of physical necessity." — HAitcLTON, 

 Metaphysics (Bowen), p. 16. 



—"We can hardly find a more suitable expression to indicate those 

 incomprehensible spontaneities themselves, of which the primary facts 

 of consciousness are the manifestations, than rational, or intellectual In- 

 stincts.''^—Ibid., p. 505. 



" Now it may be that what we call instinct here, has not been suffi- 

 ciently investigated. We hear men speak of the higher instincts and of 

 rational instincts. Are these, then, for the higher nature what the lower 

 instincts are for the lower? As many view it, What is Conscience but a 

 rational instinct, a guide without comprehension, but rational, because 

 it reveals itself as the voice of God, which all instinct is, without thus 

 revealing itself ? "—President Hopkins, Moral Science, 1st Ed., p. %\L 



