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reasonable. The tiger will do the same with a child. The 

 claws of the animal are made for that purpose. I could 

 go on indefinitely and describe instincts of this character 

 which would impute to God the instigation of actions 

 most cruel and unjust. 



The suffering in the world has been pointed out by 

 philosophers and naturalists. Saint George Mivart says : 

 "The world not only suffers, but has suffered for millions 

 of years ere man was. For untold ages bloodthirsty 

 rapine has raged and reigned, and cries of pain due to 

 cruel wounds and to limbs crushed in bloodstained jaws, 

 have continually resounded in the only one of God's 

 worlds we are able to know and understand. The very 

 existence of many creatures is bound up with the suffer- 

 ings of others, and parasites, external and internal, tor- 

 ture their helpless and involuntary hosts, by implements 

 carefully contrived for securing their hold and aiding 

 their progress." All these different cruelties they call 

 instinctive actions in animals and plants, yet I do not be- 

 lieve they are God's doings. 



Bergson has the following to say about instinct in in- 

 sects : "When the horse fly lays its eggs on the legs or 

 shoulders of the horse, it acts as if it knew that its larvae 

 have to develop in the horse's stomach, and that the horse 

 in licking itself will convey the larvae into its digestive 

 tract. When the paralizing wasp stings its victim, in 

 just those points where the nervous center lies, so as to 

 render it motionless without killing it, it acts like a 

 learned entomologist and a skillful surgeon. But what 

 shall we say of the little beetle sitaris, whose story is so 

 often quoted? This insect often lays its eggs at the 

 entrance of the underground passages dug by a kind of 

 bee, the anthophora. Its larva, after long waiting, springs 

 upon the male anthophora as it goes out of the passage, 



