THE SUMMIT OF THE YEARS 



changed by experience, while human intelligence 

 is slowly developed through man's educative ca- 

 pacity. The animal is a creature of habits inherited 

 and acquired, in a sense that man is not; certain 

 things may be stamped into the animal's mind, and 

 certain things may be stamped out; we can train it 

 into the formation of new habits, but we cannot 

 educate or develop its mind as we can that of a 

 child, so that it will know the why and the where- 

 fore. It does the trick or the task because we have 

 shaped its mind to the particular pattern; we have 

 stamped in this idea, which is not an idea to the 

 animal but an involuntary impulse. That which 

 exists in the mind of man as mental concepts, free 

 ideas, exists in the mind of the animal as innate 

 tendency to do certain things. The bird has an im- 

 pulse to build its nest, not any free or abstract 

 ideas about nest-building; probably the building 

 is not preceded or attended by any mental processes 

 whatever, but by an awakening instinct, an in- 

 herited impulse. 



A man can be reached and moved or influenced 

 through his mind; an animal can be reached and 

 moved only through its senses. 



The animal mind seems more like the mind we 

 see manifested in the operations of outward nature, 

 than like our own. The mind we see active in out- 

 ward nature if it is mind is so unlike our own 

 that when we seek to describe it in terms of our own, 

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