1 88 DIVERSIONS OF A NATURALIST 



the school, but that of life in all its variety. But in 

 many things he is still entirely guided by unreasoning 

 mechanical instinct, and in others he is partly impelled 

 by the old inherited instinct, partly restrained and guided 

 by reason based on experience and memory. This makes 

 the comparison of the courting man with the courting 

 animal doubly interesting. We ought to distinguish 

 what he is doing as a result of ancient inherited 

 mechanism from what he is doing as a result of conscious 

 observation, memory, and reasoning. 



