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rience ; as it must have a certain organization 

 of the body, as a basis for independent growth. 

 We also showed that Nature gives as httle In- 

 stinct to all beings as possible, and leaves the rest 

 to experience. But if experience is impossible, 

 then she completes the work by Instinct. 



We then treated of Intelligence among animals, 

 — of Intelligence as the servant of Instinct, thus 

 accounting for the uniform plane of life in each spe- 

 cies of the animal kingdom. 



Next we considered the animal Instincts proper 

 of man, and then his higher Instincts or Desires, 

 finding in them the basis of his social nature. 



And last of all, we have treated of the Moral 

 and Religious Instincts, and have found in Obhga- 

 tion the great controlling instinctive impulse which 

 modifies all others in man. 



This w^ork we have done, as we announced that 

 we should do it, mainly in the service of man. We 

 have not forgotten that the lower animals are sen- 

 tient beings, — that many of them have a high capac- 

 ity for enjoyment and suffering. When we rememi- 

 ber that the lower tribes alone inhabited this earth 

 for long ages, — compared with which, the highest 

 antiquity claimed for man is but as yesterday, — we 

 cannot regard mere animal enjoyment of the brute 

 creation as insignificant, in the plan of creation. 

 And whatever enters into that plan, is worthy of 

 the thought and study of man. But the capacity 

 for bodily suffering cannot be greater in the ani- 

 mal than in man ; and the bodily suffering of man, 

 is as nothing, compared with his capacity to suffer in 



