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instinct is law and back of law is the lawgiver. And who 

 is that lawgiver but God? The intelligence of instinct is 

 the intelligence of God. The laws of nature are the 

 thoughts of God ; and if instinct be only the outcome of 

 law, it is the direct product of God's thoughts." 



"Intelligence of all kinds comes from God," according 

 to Dr. John P. D. John, former dean of DePauw Univer- 

 sity, who addressed an audience last evening in Grace 

 Episcopal Church. He spoke on the subject, "A Glimpse 

 of God in Instinct." 



"The horse sometimes reasons ; likewise the dog, cat 

 and various other animals," he said. "An animal makes 

 use of reason when it profits by its own experience. 

 There are three kinds of animal actions in which means 

 are adjusted to ends. These are reflex, instinctive and 

 rational. 



"Reflex actions are beyond the control of the will and 

 are generally beyond the sphere of consciousness. The 

 beatings of the heart and the chief processes of digestion, 

 circulation and respiration are instances of reflex action. 

 The intelligence in these actions does not belong to the 

 animal itself. 



"Instinctive actions are under the control of the will 

 and the animal is conscious of them. All the animals of 

 the same species under the same circumstances do the 

 same things in the same way. They work according to 

 a plan, but they do not perceive that it is a plan. Each 

 animal does its work just like every other animal of its 

 species, and just as its ancestors have done and as its 

 posterity will do afterward. This class of actions em- 

 braces the greater part of the volitional work of the lower 

 animals, such as the cell building of the bees, the nest 

 building of birds and other forms of animal industry. In 

 these cases the animals seem to proceed consciously to 



