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CHAPTER VII. 



VARIOUS DEPINITIONS OP INSTINCT. — ADDISON'S OPINION ; DB. 

 DABWIN's. — THE THEOET OY SENSATION. — SPENCb'S SUM- 

 MAET. — DB. CAEPENTEE'S VIEWS OF INSTINCT AND ITS 

 LIMITS. — AECHBISHOP TILLOTSON's EXPOSITION OP THE IN- 

 STDJCTIVB MOEAl PEOPENSITIES OF MAN. — COMPAEISON OF 

 THESE VIEWS ; ANALYSIS OP AN INSTDJCTrVB ACTION, ILLITS- 

 TEATED BY THE MODE IN WHICH A PLESH-PLY OVIPOSITS ; 

 StJMMAEY AND DEFINITION OP INSTINCT. — COMPLICATED 

 ACTS OP INSECTS J HOW THEY MAY BE EXPLAINED. — DIPFI- 

 CULTY OF DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN INSTINCT AND BBASON. 

 — STOBY OF THE GOLD-WASP AND MASON-BEE, AND COM- 

 MENTS UPON THE ACT PEBPOEMED BY THE BEE. — ^IS THEEB 

 A DEFINITE BOUNDAEY-LINE BETWEEN INSTINCT AND 

 BEASON? — NECESSITY FOE THE STUDY OP COMPABATIVE 

 PSYCHOLOGY, OB THE SCIENCE OP MIND IN ANIMALS. 



To write a treatise upon the Bee without referring 

 to the subject of iastinct, would be Kke publishing a 

 book upon geology, and ignoring the existence of fossil 

 remains of animals, or one on geography, in which 

 the earth was described as though it were not peopled. 

 It is therefore our intention, or at least our wish, 

 to treat this part of the subject in the same homely 

 and unpretending manner as we have dealt with the 

 physical question, and to consider it from a practical 

 point of view, in its bearings upon our own nature 

 (for the investigation of instinct necessarily connects 



