2CX) Instinct. 



sleigh-bell, as soon as its tinkle can be heard. The 

 horse keeps step to the music, and learns to obey 

 the bugle note. Singing birds accompany musical 

 instruments, and imitate their sound, and the songs 

 of other birds, to perfection. From this power of 

 accurately discerning sound and the accompanying 

 actions, we have fair ground for inferring that many 

 of the higher animals not only distinguish musical 

 sounds, but enjoy them. That wealth of melody, 

 which fills our fields and groves, is sweet to the ear 

 of man ; but the songsters do not wait his coming, 

 to begin their concert. 



" Is it for thee, the linnet pours his throat ? 

 Loves of his own, and raptures, swell the note." 



That animals are sensible of beauty of form and 

 color, it would be difficult to prove. It is, certainly, 

 some argument in its favor, that they are most 

 beautiful, in form and color, when they choose their 

 mates. That they admire the landscape, over 

 which they wander, or gaze from the giddy Alps, 

 with the emotion of awe, or wonder at their sublim- 

 ity, is something which we can never know. These 

 high emotions can be revealed only by the face and 

 tongue of man. But it is sometimes said that all 

 this enjoyment, which comes to animals through 

 the senses, arises from a low form of activity which 

 betokens no intelligence or thought. Do animals 

 reason ? After eliminating all instinctive acts, 

 which simulate the rational acts of men, do we find 

 that animals perform any acts, by the use of the 

 same powers, and in the same manner, as men do, 



