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Intuition, on the other hand, relates to ab- 

 stract truth, to all that is necessary as a basis for 

 correct reasoning, and for conducting the process, 

 — whether in the field of pure intellect or morals. 

 What we know intuitively, will always be true. 

 What we know instinctively, Is true only because 

 this order of things is what it is. What we know 

 intuitively, we cannot believe to be different from 

 what it is, — it is in this sense, necessary truth. 

 What we believe instinctively, might be different 

 from what it is — it is continge7it. 



Instinct, then, has the same relation to action 

 that Intuition has to thought, or the logical pro- 

 cess. In all reasoning, something must be given as 

 known. If this were not done, no reasoning would 

 be possible. In acting, something must be given as 

 an impulse and as an initial directing power , or knowl- 

 edge from experience would be impossible, — there 

 would, in our actions, be no relation to the universe 

 in which we are placed. 



The use of Instinct to animals and men, is to 

 give them impulses to action, and guidance in 

 spheres where the appetites, as functional, cannot 

 reach, to start them in the right direction, and to 

 add impulses on the way, at the same time giving 

 such knowledge and skill as could not be gained 

 by experience, — or perhaps better, to secure from 

 them such action as could not otherwise be secured, 

 without such an experience as would be destruc- 

 tive to such beings, and thus be constantly defeat- 

 ing the end for which they were made. We can 

 best illustrate this principle by referring once more 



