REASONABLE BUT UNREASONING 



and tools, so they get along very well without reason. 

 Nature has given them tools in their organization in 

 a sense that she has not given them to man — special 

 appliances developed to meet special needs, such as 

 hooks, spears, saws, files, chisels, barbs, drills, shears, 

 probes, stings, drums, fiddles, cymbals, harps, glues, 

 pastes, armors, stilts, pouches, all related to some 

 need of the creature's life; and in the same way 

 she has given them the quality of reason in their in- 

 stincts. She has given the beaver knives and chisels 

 in his teeth, she has given the woodpeckers drills in 

 their beaks, she has given the leaf-cutters shears 

 in their mandibles, she has given the bees baskets 

 on their hips, she has given stilts to the waders and 

 bills that are spears, to birds of prey claws that are 

 hooks, and to various creatures weapons of offense 

 and defense that man cannot boast of. Man has 

 no tools or ornamental appendages in his organiza- 

 tion, but he has that which can make and use these 

 things — arms and hands, and reason to back them 

 up. I can crack my nut with a stone or hammer, but 

 the squirrel has teeth that help him to the kernel. 

 Each of us is armed as best suits his needs. The 

 mink and the otter can take their fish in the water, 

 but I have to have a net, or a hook, or a weapon 

 of some kind when I catch fish. The woodpecker 

 can chisel out a hole in a tree for his nest or his 

 house, with only the weapon nature gave him, but 

 he cannot make a door to it, or patch it if it be- 

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