GATHERED BY THE WAY 
unlearned, unconscious kind, —the intelligence in- 
nate in nature. We use the word to distinguish a 
gift or faculty which animals possess, and which is 
independent of instruction and experience, from the 
mental equipment of man which depends mainly 
upon instruction and experience. A man has to be 
taught to do that which the lower animals do from 
nature. Hence the animals do not progress in 
knowledge, while man’s progress is almost limitless. 
A man is an animal born again into a higher spirit- 
ual plane. He has lost or shed many of his animal 
instincts in the process, but he has gained the ca- 
pacity for great and wonderful improvement. 
Instinct is opposed to reason, to reflection, to 
thought, —to that kind of intelligence which knows 
and takes cognizance of itself. Instinct is that lower 
form of intelligence which acts through the senses, — 
sense perception, sense association, sense memory, — 
which we share with the animals, though their eyes 
and ears and noses are often quicker and keener 
than ours. Hence the animals know only the present, 
visible, objective world, while man through his gift 
of reason and thought knows the inward world of 
ideas and ideal relations. 
An animal for the most part knows all that it is 
necessary for it to know as soon as it reaches ma- 
turity; what it learns beyond that, what it learns 
at the hands of the animal-trainer, for instance, it 
learns slowly, through a long repetition of the pro- 
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