LEAF AND TENDRIL 



a bundle of instincts, impulses, affinities, appetites, 

 and race traits, without the extra gift of reason. 



The animal has sensation, perception, and power 

 of association, and these suffice it. Man has sen- 

 sation, perception, memory, comparison, ideality, 

 judgment, and the like, which suffice him. 



There can be no dispute, I suppose, as to certain 

 emotions and impulses being exclusively human, 

 such as awe, veneration, humility, reverence, self- 

 sacrifice, shame, modesty, and many others that are 

 characteristic of what we call our moral nature. 

 Then there are certain others that we share with our 

 dumb neighbors — curiosity, jealousy, joy, anger, 

 sex love, the maternal and paternal instinct, the in- 

 stinct of fear, of self-preservation, and so forth. 



There is at Jeast one instinct or faculty that the 

 animals have far more fuUy developed than we 

 have — the homing instinct, which seems to imply 

 a sense of direction that we have not. We have lost 

 it because we have other faculties to take its place, 

 just as we have lost that acute sense of smell that 

 is so marvelously developed in many of the four- 

 footed creatures. It has long been a contention of 

 mine that the animals all possess the knowledge 

 and intelligence which is necessary to their self- 

 preservation and the perpetuity of the species, and 

 that is about all. This homing instinct seems to be 

 one of the special powers that the animals cannot 

 get along without. If the solitary wasp, for instance, 

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