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instinct, and recently in a letter to the writer that 

 well-known authority on matters equine and canine, 

 Major-General Tweedie, referred to this very question 

 thus: 



" Before considering instinct and reason together, 

 it is necessary to assign a meaning to the latter word. 

 Otherwise the question, ' Do the lower animals 

 reason? ' cannot well be dealt with. Reason, in 

 the sense Horace used it, as in Seu Ratio dederit, 

 sen Fors objecerit, is quite intelligible ; but if reason- 

 ing means the faculty of thinking out, a syllogism 

 nebulosity comes in. 



" The instinct of this to purposes prescribed by 

 many perhaps depends on discipline, education, train- 

 ing, rather than on anything more recondite. 



" Every puppy points more or less, or crouches, 

 at the sight of farm-yard poultry, and this instinct 

 man has developed into the mature act of the highly- 

 bred pointer and setter. 



" Had Nature not been beforehand with us in 

 inclining every litter of pigs from the moment of 

 their birth to the teats, could we ever have done so ? 

 Man is a great factor, but there are even more 

 powerful factors behind him." 



Without further labouring the point then, there is 

 a natural innate force in the canine world to hunt 

 which has come right down the ages from the epoch 

 when upon the prowess of the animal in this direction 



