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may be inferred a corresponding forwardness in the 

 birth of intelligence, because animals which are soonest 

 thrown upon their own resources must be readiest 

 to exercise their wits, or disappear from the scene 

 of life. 



3. Is the conscious intelligence exoteric? In other 

 words, is it the consequence of external and superior 

 Tnandate or suggestion, acting upon a suitable physical 

 receptacle ? 



This question leads upon ground upon which the light 



of scientific evidence has scarcely fallen as yet. In those 



remarkable chapters of the Book of Job, the 38th and 



three following ones, wherein the Lord answers Job 



out of the whirlwind, there is a great deal of reference 



to matter most interesting to the zoologist. They 



should be read, for lucidity, in the Revised Version : — 



' The wing of the ostrich rejoiceth, 



But are her pinions and feathers kindly [or like the stork's] ? 

 For she leayeth her eggs on the earth, 

 And warmeth them in the dust. 

 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them. 

 Or that the wild beast may trample them. 

 She is hardened against her young ones, as if they were not hers ; 

 Though her labours be in vain, she is without fear ; 

 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, 

 Neither hath He impa/rted to her understanding.' ' 



Here the author of life is considered naturally as the 

 source of consciousness, nor is any other source likely 

 to suggest itself to one who feels that there must be a 

 designing, controlling, and directing head of the uni- 

 verse. To expunge that factor from our speculations 

 only lands us in darker perplexity. Yet of the nature 



1 Job xxxix, 13-17. 



