228 Instinct, 



the whole work; and do it so that the wisest being on 

 the globe cannot improve upon our workj though we 

 work through BEES a7id SPIDERS and WORMS — the 

 lowest forms that live. 



Next above the instincts, we have found Intelli- 

 gence, which enables the actor to comprehend the 

 probable results of his own acts before they are put 

 forth. It may rise much higher than this, but here 

 its work begins. All these activities and powers 

 here enumerated, we find in man and in the high- 

 est of the lower animals. So far, certainly, the an- 

 imals differ from each other, and from man, only in 

 degree. But while all these activities take their 

 rise in the animal nature, they shoot up higher in 

 man, and so interweave themselves with every no- 

 bler power, that we shall find them constantly re-ap- 

 pearing, as we consider the higher nature of man. 

 So intimately blended are the natural affections 

 with the moral nature of man, that even the natu- 

 ral affections of animals, which give them a social 

 nature, have been referred to by some, as proof of 

 a moral nature in them. We hope to make plain 

 the distinction between these two natures, before 

 the close of these lectures. 



