34 THE ORIGIN OP CREATION. 



which should have definite answers in this age of intel- 

 ligence. 



There is something very curious about the habits of what we' 

 call the inferior animals, which seems to make them gifted in 

 many respects, far beyond what man apparently will ever" 

 attain to. Instinct in them often excels reason in man. We 

 find the inferior animal, as it comes into existence to be perfect 

 so to speak -each according to its species- and its instincts ; 

 as shown by each adapting itself to its proper food and condi 

 tions ; whereas man is altogether helpless, and he only reaches 

 a kind of perfection, by the long road of education. 



The scent of the hound, is a gift which n'o man possesses ; 

 and the foresight displayed by the bee, in laying up a store of 

 honey when the winter is to be long, and in killing the drones 

 early if a wet summer is coming ; seems to baffle human 

 prescience entirely. The swallow also, in his mild winter 

 residence, knows when it is time to migrate to his northern 

 home, and the carrier pigeon, no matter where taken to, will 

 find his way back to his original starting place : the foreknow- 

 ledge of the beaver and muskrat, outstrips the telegraph, while 

 the spider, excels man in the art of spinning, and drawing mathe- 

 matical lines. Yet there lies the comparative limit of their 

 skill; for, while the animal of to-day knows no more than his 

 congener of creation, the man of to-day is continually pro- 

 gressing in knowledge and acquirements. 



What then constitutes this immense difference between man 

 and the beast, and how does the latter inherit it ? 



The grand difference lies in the fact, that the animal its 

 possessed of one mind only, known as instinct, and that it i 

 perfect in its kind ; while man has two, an animal mind, 



