THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 



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way. We do not see how to separate reason from intelligence, 

 but there is no difficulty in separating these from instinct. 



Some animals are born with such complicated reflex acts as 

 walking, galloping, jumping, etc., so highly developed that they 

 are employed at once. No member of the human family has 

 been seen to walk and run about a few hours after leaving the 

 womb, for both brain and spinal cord are incompletely developed, 

 and the acts have to be learned. This is not so with animals 

 (excepting the dog and cat) : the chick walks out of its shell, 

 foals, calves, lambs, goats, etc., are born prepared to feel their 

 feet at once ; they require no teaching and no imitation, their 

 senses are perfect, they can recognise their mother or a stranger, 

 can see, smell, hear ; in fact, they have nothing to learn, for they 

 are born with as much intelligence as their parents, and only 

 differ from them in one respect, and that is, they are born wild, 

 and so have to learn confidence. Domestication and obedience 

 are not properties transmitted from parent to offspring. 



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