CHAPTER VII, 



INSTINCT, OR ANIMAL MIND. 



instinct a higher phase of Mind. Frank Bnckland. Why a Chicken 

 knew a Gentleman was not its Mother. Sparrows require no 

 Teaching. Foreknowledge of Bees and Beavers. Important 

 Fact. Animal's Mind Perfect Never Progresses. Man alwari 

 Progressing. Difference between Man and Beast. Man twv 

 Minds. Animals one. Animals no Soul. Mind returns to 

 Earth. Their Mind all Nature. Animals Perfect on separation 

 from the Parent. 'Answer to Frank Buckland'a questioner. 



WHILE appetite is instinct, and should hardly be separated 

 from it, yet we wish to allude more particularly to the higher 

 phase of animal mind, as shown in the skill of the bees, 

 ants, and spiders ; the foreknowledge of the beaver, the cunning 

 of the fox, and the scent of the hound. 



A curious paragraph went the round of the newspapers some 

 time ago, about a gentleman, who told Mr. Frank Buckland. 

 the naturalist, that on watching a chicken coming out of ite 

 shell, it ran away from him as soon as it was free ; the gentle- 

 man wished to know how the chicken knew he was not ite 

 mother. The question was a puzzler for the naturalist, so he 

 contented himself with merely turning the whole thing into * 

 joke. But there is more than a joke in the query, and it 

 involves other questions about the inetinctive habits of animals, 



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