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that it is not organization merely which 

 creates it, but that it arises from temporary 

 actions occurring in peculiarly organized 

 parts ; and the rare recurrence of this 

 instinct shows how long such actions may 

 be suspended so as to render organization 

 of no effect. 



Admitting that man, like animals, pos- 

 sesses in various degrees a natural pro- 

 pensity and talent for construction, yet no 

 blind impulse regulates his labours ; he 

 constructs what his reason directs, or his 

 fancy suggests ; he forms previous plans 

 or designs, and alters them till the whole 

 seems to accord with his intentions ; and 

 yet none of his works is so unalterably 

 perfect as are those produced by blind in- 

 stinct operating according to the ordinances 

 of overruling Intelligence. 



