LECTURE IX. 



INSTINCT IN MAN GROWING OUT OF HIS APPE- 

 TITES. — ANIMAL IN THEIR ORIGIN. 



Man and Animals compared. — Observation and study a necessity for 

 Man. — The higher Ruling Principle. — Free Personality. — Com- 

 plexity of Mans Nature. — Origin and use of the Appetites. — Nar- 

 row range of Animal Instinct in the child. — Nursing. — Fear. — 

 Moral Instincts. — Animal Ijtstincts to be governed. — Marriage . — 

 The desires. — Desire of Life, of Knowledge, of Power, of Esteem, 

 of Society. — Revolutions and Reformations, — Summation of 

 Activities. 



Man is called a rational being, in distinction from 

 the brutes. He is certainly entitled to this distinc- 

 tion, as a being in whom Reason ought to control 

 all the activities. Has he Instinct, — the same in 

 kind as we have found among the lower animals ? 

 We have attempted to show that animals have In- 

 telligence ; but Intelligence subordinated to their 

 Instinct, which always controls, so that almost uni- 

 form results are secured, among animals of the same 

 species, when left to themselves. It has so long 

 been taken for granted, by a large class of writers, 

 that animals possess nothing but Instinct, to account 

 for their actions, that the assertion, that they pos- 

 sess Intelligence, shocks many, as an attempt to 

 break down the distinction between man and brutes. 



