490 LIABILITY TO ERROR. 



27. Instinct. 



28. Panic, fright and fear. 



29. Combativeness and temper : obstinacy. 



30. Rivalry and jealousy. 



31. Destructiveness. 



32. Perseverance, pertinacity, importunity. 



33. Supposition and causality. 



34. Suspicion. 



35. Delusion. 



36. Dreaming and sleep. 



37. Wildness. 



38. Civilisation, or domesticity. 



39. Language, knowledge of words and their significa- 



tion. 



40. Feeding and appetite. 



41. Intoxication. 



42. Sexual passion or lust. 



43. Pairing. 



44. Pregnancy and parturition. 



45. Incubation. 



46. Cleanliness. 



47. Construction, and constructiveness or ingenuity : as 



regards material, form, locality. 



48. Domicile or shelter. 



The mistakes of animals may also be divided into those 

 characteristic of youth, maturity, and age; or into those 

 which affect species, such as the bee, or dog ; or into those 

 which are 



1. Natural, excusable or pardonable, as the fruit of igno- 

 rance ; and those that are 



2. Inexcusable and punishable, sins against knowledge 

 of the nature, in other words, of crime ; or into those that 

 are 



3. Capable of ready explanation as to their obvious cau- 

 sation ; and those that are 



4. Unaccountable, incapable at present of satisfactory 

 explanation ; or into 



5. Errors of health and. disease, mental and bodily, in- 

 cluding all the stages of debility. 



