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it will comply with my request. I say to a horse, 

 " Lie down," and to a boy, " Lie down," they will 

 both obey my command. I say to a dog, " Bring 

 me my hat," and to a boy, " Bring me my cane," 

 and they will both do as directed. The mental 

 action and free-will is reason in one as well as the 

 other. At some time in their lives each one had 

 to be taught the relation between the articulate 

 sounds of my voice, and each had to reason from 

 the different sounds I uttered which act I wished 

 performed. A child will look up into my face and 

 sa} T , " Please open the door," being unable to do so 

 itself. .My cat will go to the door, pat it with its 

 paw, and look trustfully up into my face and say, 

 " Please open the door." I understand one just as 

 well as the other, though they do not articulate the 

 same kind of sounds. Both go on the principle of 

 reasoning from cause to effect. They ask me to 

 open the door, as they know by that act, they 

 can walk outside through the open space and be at 

 liberty to go where they choose. 



If this vital energy is the product of the soul in 

 the one instance it is in all. In infancy, theology 

 says, that the child is governed by instinct, but as 

 it grows older, that form of instinct which was 



