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nal world as their appetites or instincts incline them to, 

 and this is their wisdom : while the intellect of man, being 

 associated with an immortal principle, and connected with a 

 world above that which his senses reveal to him, can, by aid 

 derived from Heaven, control these senses, and render them 

 obedient to the governing power of his nature ; and this is 

 his icisdom.'''' 



The point of distinction between man and the lower orders 

 of creation, has seldom been more happily expressed than 

 by Mr. Spence ; it is not that man reasons and they do not, 

 but that, being " made in the image of God," he has a moral 

 and accountable nature, while they have nothing of the kind. 



" It will be evident," says Bevan, " that though I make a 

 distinction between the instinct and the reason of bees, I do 

 not confound their reason with the reason of man. But to 

 obviate all possibility of misconception, I will at once de- 

 fine my meaning, when I use the terms insect reason and 

 instinct. 



" By reason, I mean the power of making deductions from 

 previous experience or observation, and thereby of adapting 

 means to ends. Instinct I regard as a disposition and power 

 to perform certain actions in the same uniform manner, de- 

 pending upon nice mechanism and having no reference either 

 to observation or experience ; operating on the means, without 

 anticipation of the end, incited by no hope, controlled by no 

 foreboding. Those who have attended to this subject, will 

 be aware that insect reason, as above defined, is more re- 

 stricted - in its functions than the reason of man ; to which 

 is superadded the power of distinguishing between the true 

 and the false, and, according to some metaphysicians, be- 

 tween right and wrong. Reason, in man, has a regular 

 growth and a slow progression ; all the arts he practices 

 evince skill and dexterity, proportioned to the pains which 

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