114 INSTINCT 
feel that it is the only appropriate and natural thing to 
do. . . . Andso, probably, does each animal feel about the 
particular things it tends to do in the presence of particular 
objects. . . . To the lion it is the lioness which is made to 
be loved; to the bear, the she-bear. To the broody hen the 
notion would probably seem preposterous that there should 
be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not 
the utterly fascinating and precious, never-to-be-too-much- 
sat-upon-object which it is to her.” 
With increasing intelligence attention becomes devoted 
to things which are more remotely connected with instinctive 
interests, but even in ourselves instinct, in one form or 
another, supplies the basis of most of our springs of action. 
With us, as with the lower animals, self-preservation and 
the perpetuation of the stock afford, broadly interpreted, 
the main business of life. 
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