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the evidence before him, that the eminent judges, 

 authors, writers, artists, publishers, and leading 

 merchants were all machines? 



I do not claim that the lower creatures possess 

 a human intellect, far from it; but inasmuch as it 

 is admitted that our brains have grown or de- 

 veloped from something possessed by a lower 

 form of animal, 



THE ADMISSION ADMITS 



that the animal must have possessed something 

 from which an intellect could be developed, in 

 other words a mind, which by education gradually 

 becomes a human intellect. If, according to science, 

 man is but an educated animal, it is evident that we 

 need some new definition of reason, intellect, and 

 instinct in order to escape endless misunderstanding 

 and discussion and make a platform on which all 

 may stand and from which we can reach some 

 common-sense conclusion. But to give the wishy- 

 washy sentiments of the old writers to the beasts, 

 or to take the Uncle Remus school of nature 

 writers seriously is as absurd as the automatism as- 

 serted by some of our modern naturalists. 



AN OLD BROWN COW 



I once knew was always sleek and fat ; whether the 

 grass crop was good or bad mattered little to 

 her. 



Like other cows, 



