86 MEMOIRS OF 



which is comprehended under the terrr^ 

 health. 



It cannot be denied that in the purfuit 

 of a new and favorite fyftem, Dr. Dar- 

 win has, in fome inftances, imperioufly re- 

 jected the adverfe fads which oppofed his 

 theory. His chapter on InftincT:, highly 

 ingenious as it is, affords proof of his hy- 

 pothetical devotion. He there denies, at 

 leaft by ftrong implication, the exiftence of 

 that faculty fo termed, and which God has 

 given to his inferior family, in lieu of the 

 rational. But this wonderfully ingenious 

 philofopher feeks in vain to melt down in 

 his fyftem of imitation amongft brutes, the 

 eternal boundaries which feparate inftincl; 



and reafon. 



God, who has exempted the orders of 



brutal life from refponfibility for their ac- 

 tions in this terreftrial fphere, gave them 

 inftinft, incapable of error, but alfo, be- 

 yond a certain very limited degree, incapa- 

 ble 



