Intellect — Sensibility. 287 



But since the Appetites are not sufficiently 

 broad to furnish impulses for all the action needed 

 for animals of high rank, we have the Desires, so 

 called, which do not rise from any function of the 

 body. These give rise to whole series of instinctive 

 activities, of special kinds. And so here we find in- 

 stinctive action rising into a higher plane than the 

 mere satisfying of Appetite. 



The Appetites and histinctive impulses, and 

 the Instincts which guide action specifically, are the 

 necessary provision made for every being that is to 

 have an experience. Sometimes the instincts take 

 the place of experience entirely, — they always must 

 involve so much of original knowledge and skill 

 as are needful for carrying on the work of life, until 

 experience can be gained to aid in the work. 



Above these instincts is Intellect, by which the 

 being comprehends relations and the results of its 

 own acts. In the animal, this is so low, or rather 

 so weak, as to be subordinated to the instincts of 

 the body. In man it is the servant of a higher na- 

 ture, which by the aid of the intellect subordinates 

 and controls the instincts of the body. 



In both animals and men are found Sensibility 

 and W27/.— Sensibility in man, taking a very wide 

 range, compared with that in animals,— its highest 

 range being beyond his animal nature, into the 

 moral and rehgious. Will in the animal seems to 

 be merely the obedient executive, carrying out the 

 suggestions of the instinctive powers ; while in man, 

 it performs the same office work, and is also the 

 power, by which every appetite, instinct and desire, 



