1 86 COMPAEISONS OF STRUCTURE IN AKIMALS. 



Is he under the same law ? Partly so, and 

 especially during his long and helpless state of 

 infancy. Instinct leads the child to the mother's 

 breast; and even in mature years, we in- 

 stinctively Taise our arm to avert a blow or 

 threatened danger. But let it be remembered, 

 that mind, reason, reflection, memory, imagin- 

 ation, begin early to develop themselves in 

 man, and he is specially organized for the 

 guidance of mind, in contradistinction to 

 instinct. His hands are not diggers, hke those 

 of the mole, but he can make the plough and 

 the spade ; he cannot gnaw down trees like 

 the beaver, but he can make the saw and the 

 hatchet, and, what is more, he can improve 

 upon his first beginnings, and advance step by 

 step in the arts of life, till his rude hut be- 

 comes the palace of the Csesars, and his wicker 

 coracle a floating city on the waters. He has 

 no natural instruments, but, one being made, 

 it enables him to make others ; and these, 

 others again ; and so on in accumulating ratio, 

 till at last he surrounds himself with the most 

 complicated machinery, and, instead of content- 

 ing himself with a mere provision for his 

 necessities, aims at the possession of luxury 

 and splendour. Hence he unlocks the doors 



