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each species of animal is composed of a different 

 bundle of instincts. Human nature is the name 

 we give to the set of inclinations which we find 

 in our own species. Fox nature is the name of the 

 bundle of instincts found in foxes, and horse na- 

 ture is composed of the urges and instincts which 

 cause horses to do the things they do. 



Fundamentally the natures of all the higher an- 

 imals, including man, are much alike, just as the 

 bodily structures of all the higher animals, includ- 

 ing man, are fundamentally similar. All the 

 higher animals have backbones, and ribs, and four- 

 chambered hearts, and two lungs, and two pairs 

 of limbs containing the same bones, and heads 

 with eyes, ears, nose, and mouth occupying the 

 same relative positions. And in the same way all 

 the higher animals, including man, have natures 

 prompting them to be anxious about their young, 

 to be fond of their mates, to seek food when they 

 are hungry, and to do their level best to live as 

 long as they can. The dog, the cat, the robin, and 

 the man, altho in many ways very different 

 from each other in their natures, are nevertheless 

 all alike in their eagerness to live and in their in- 

 variable preference of pleasure to pain. 



3. Habits. 



Habit has been called " second nature/' And 

 this is a very good name for it. Habit is truly 

 second nature. Our first nature is the one we bring 

 into the world with us. It consists of the inclina- 



