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more than a few inches, before he was descried by one 

 of these oven-born chickens, and, at one peck of his 

 bill, immediately devoured. This certainly was not 

 imitation. A female goat very near delivery died; 

 Galen cut out the young kid, and placed before it a 

 bundle of hay, a bunch of fruit, and a pan of milk ; the 

 young kid smelt to them all very attentively, and then 

 began to lap the milk. This was not imitation. And 

 what is commonly and rightly called instinct, cannot 

 be explained away, under the notion of its being imita- 

 tion " (Lecture xvii. on Moral Philosophy). 



It cannot, indeed, be explained away under the notion 

 of its being imitation, but I think it may well be so 

 under that of its being memory. 



Again, a little further on in the same lecture, as that 

 above quoted from, we find : 



"Ants and beavers lay up magazines. Where do 

 they get their knowledge that it will not be so easy to 

 collect food in rainy weather, as it is in summer ? Men 

 and women know these things, because their grand- 

 papas and grandmammas have told them so. Ants 

 hatched from the egg artificially, or birds hatched in 

 this manner, have all this knowledge by intuition, 

 without the smallest communication with any of their 

 relations. Now observe what the solitary wasp does; 

 she digs several holes in the sand, in each of which 

 she deposits an egg, though she certainly knows not (?) 

 that an animal is deposited in that egg, and still less 

 that this animal must be nourished with other animals. 

 She collects a few green flies, rolls them up neatly in 

 several parcels (like Bologna sausages), and stuffs one 



