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and if he be actuated by any other than these, 

 the generation of ideas in animals is very 

 different from the generation of ideas in men. 

 Ants and beavers lay up magazines. Where do 

 they get this knowledge that it will not be as 

 easy to collect food in rainy weather as it is in 

 summer? Men and women know these things, 

 because their grandpapas and grandmammas 

 have told them so; ants, hatched from the egg 

 artificially, or birds hatched in this manner, have 

 all this knowledge by intuition, without the 

 smallest communication with any of their rela- 

 tions." l 



Professor Lloyd Morgan defines " instinctive 

 behaviour as that which is, on its first occur- 

 rence, independent of prior experience; which 

 tends to the well-being of the individual and 

 the preservation of the race ; which is similarly 

 performed by all the members of the same more 

 or less restricted groups of animals ; and which 

 may be subject to subsequent modification 

 under the guidance of experience." 2 He holds 



1 Sketches of Moral Philosophy, by Sydney Smith, pp. 240, 

 244, 247. 



2 Instinct and Experience, by C. Lloyd Morgan, D.Sc., Professor 

 in the University of Bristol, pp. 5, 28, 79, 204. 



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