REASON AND INSTINCT 5 



two words — Reason and Instinct. Where for example the 

 scholastic definition " Reason is the faculty which is con- 

 cerned in the adaptation of means to ends " is met by Mr. 

 Darwin's dictum, " Even the headless oyster profits by 

 experience." 



Truly, like the well-schooled French molluscs to which 

 he refers, who by a daily increased length of exposure to air 

 instead of sea, are taught not to gape in unnecessary haste 

 and so bring about their death before they reach the epi- 

 cure's table, the laity can best shew its wisdom by keeping 

 its mouth shut until the tide of scientific opinion is un- 

 mistakable in strength and direction. 



