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their nests differently, where climate and other 

 circumstances require a variation, is another in- 

 stance. A dog may be restrained from obeying 

 its instincts, by the intimidating recollection of a 

 beating which it had formerly received ; a bee, 

 if alarmed, will quit the nectary of a flower : here 

 the intellect of the creatures counteracts their in- 

 stincts. There are other instances in which the 

 intellect appears to direct the instincts. When the 

 bee makes excursive flights in quest of pasture, 

 its senses serve to guide it, and enable it, by the aid 

 of memory, to retrace its passage home again. At 

 the conclusion of its outward and homeward jour- 

 neys, its instincts immediately begin to operate ; in 

 the one case, teaching it to imbibe nectar, collect 

 pollen, &c. ; in the other, to store and apply those 

 materials to their respective uses. 



M. REIMAR has denied that the lower animals 

 possess memory, properly so called ; and has given 

 it as his opinion, that they are only influenced 

 by past events, in consequence of having present 

 objects before them, never by reflection or know- 

 ledge of the past, as being past. But that, with 

 them, a former impression may be renewed, with- 

 out being recollected ; that it is thus rendered pre- 

 sent to the imagination, but has no place in the 

 memory. For arguments and instances in sup- 

 port of their being endowed with memory, see 

 page 260. (Organs of Sensation.) 



