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^^ instinct" witliout ^^ reason," and it is thus that I 

 seek at least to draw some line of demarcation 

 between the two. But avIio, then, shall draw the 

 line that will leave to us neither cavil nor difference 

 of opinion ? It must be wiser men than those who 

 call all animals ^^dumb," or who prate of a '' dumb- 

 madness" other than ^Miydrophobia," and capable 

 of deadly infection through dog to man. Dumb, 

 indeed ! Both beasts and birds can speak to me — 

 to us— in tones of far more touching pathos, ample 

 and audible, than can be uttered by the growling 

 voices of some of our own sex. To woman's lips 

 alone I yield the sweeter preference, for in her 

 voice there seems to dwell the soul of all that is 

 gentle, generous, and beautiful. 



Let us take one more instance of instinct so 

 blended with reason, that it is scarcely possible to 

 define the severance of the two. 



There lived in a family a nice, good-humoured, 

 and good-sized monkey, — certainly kind, good- 

 liumoured and truthful, for it had never shed its tail 

 in its approach to Christianity, nor, as our sequel 

 shows, could it resist in another an aj)peal for food. 

 Love and charity this monkey decidedly possessed, 

 and it was dotingly fond of the baby son and heir to 



