INSTANCES OF ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE I 33 



Can you fancy that He gives the body of an animal 

 this or that motion, or places it in this or that par- 

 ticular attitude at the sound of a curse, the crack 

 of a whip, or from arbitrary signs of human 

 actions ? 



The Bible plainly attributes the principle of dis- 

 tinct knowledge and free-will to lower animals in 

 the passage which says, " For the stork in the 

 heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the 

 turtle and the crane and the swallow know the 

 times of their coming, but My people do not under- 

 stand the judgments of their God." It is evident 

 by this that an animal acts upon an intelligent 

 principle of its own ; for if its motions were the 

 effect of infinite intelligence, the inspired writer 

 was very wrong in introducing it as an instance of 

 regularity to shame man's follies and awaken him 

 to a sense of his duty or the call of his God. 

 Hence animals are to be considered as creatures 

 that move and act of themselves, or as having souls 

 like man by which they are informed and directed. 

 The memory of animals, their power of comparing, 

 distinguishing, and reasoning, and, above all, their 

 sense, which necessarily infers a sentient principle, 

 are additional confirmations of this truth never to 



