DO MEN THINK? 103 



what the fate of the grizzly would have been- 

 if the King's orders were obeyed as well as are 

 those of a certain brilliant but vain and childish 

 emperor, who sends a laborer to nine months in 

 prison for sticking out his tongue at him. 



But long ago before Uncle Remus had taught 

 some of our modern romantic nature writers his 

 peculiar method of viewing Natural History, long 

 before the reaction which teaches us that animals 

 are nothing but living machines, there was a time 

 when animals were not only thought to be en- 

 dowed with human reason, but also with human 

 morals and human tendency to crime. A proof of 

 this is in the fact that they were frequently brought 

 into court with lawyers to defend and lawyers to 

 prosecute them for their misdeeds. 



But the careful observer and student who has 

 freed himself from the loose reasoning of the first 

 writers and the narrow reasoning of the last ones, 

 cannot help being astonished, both at the 



POWER OF "INSTINCT," AND THE LIMITATIONS OF 

 "MIND" 



in insect, beast and man. 



The scientist who prepares an elaborate labyrinth 

 with which to test the reasoning powers of a rat, 

 forgets that he should not venture beyond the 

 previous experiences of the rat. Many of the so- 

 called reasoning human beings are as helpless as 

 the rodent when confronted with entirely new 



