INTELLIGENCE, POWER, 



robin's sense of sight, the impulses of which fall upon its 

 4 'thinking" brain, where they are sorted and sifted until 

 decision is made. This is the same process by which a human 

 being locates his house. The bird, with its high metabo- 

 lism, its highly organized "thinking" brain, its keen sense of 

 sight, thinks through its intricate problems in relation to 

 the seasons, to the night and the day, to rain and to storm, 

 in regard to food supply, in regard to placing its nest in a 

 safe position, in regard to combating other birds, and in 

 regard to bringing up its young and migrating in the 

 autumn. In all these acts, it would seem that the bird 

 surveys, judges, and makes decisions. In other words, the 

 destiny of the bird is determined by what is called "in- 

 stinct" but which might be considered "thinking" the 

 exercise of an inherited mechanism fixed in the protoplasm 

 of its species, as in the case of man. 



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