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CHAPTER VIII. 



VEGETABLE IIEE. — ^MOTILE PLANTS. — ABSENCE OP MENTAL 

 PROPEKTIES IN THE LO'WEST TYPES OF ANIMAL LIFE. — 

 UNITY IN THE PEOGBESSIVB DEVBLOPMaiNT OP MIND AND 

 BODY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. — SENSATION THE EBBST 

 INDICATION OE MIND. — PSYCHICAL PROPERTIES OP THE 

 SEA-ANEMONE. — THE ACTINIA AND THE HUMAN INFANT. — 

 "animal" OR "NATURAL INSTINCT": ITS UNIVERSALITY 

 IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. — THE INSECT RACES : THEIR 

 HIGHER PSYCHICAL POWERS ; FITNESS OF THESE FOR THE 

 USES OP THEIR VARIOUS ORGANS, MEMBERS, AND ACTIONS. 

 — NECESSITY OF THE HIGHER PSYCHICAL POWERS OP IN- 

 SECTS. — THE BEE. — ITS EMOTIONS. — EXPERIMENT TO PROVE 

 THE PRESENCE OP ITS PEELING OF ANGER. — DO BEES THINK? 

 — ABSENCE OF EDUCABILITY IN INSTINCT. — "RATIONAL IN- 

 STINCT." — "reason," OR INTELLIGENCE: ITS RELATIONS 

 TO THE CEREBRUM: EDUCABILITY, AND DESIGN OR CON- 

 SCIOUS MOTIVE, TWO OF ITS CHARACTERISTICS. — THE TWO 

 CROWS AND THE DOG. — "INSTINCTIVE INTELLIGENCE." — 

 THE DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND MAN. — NATURE OP THE 

 DOG : ITS MORAL WORTH ; ITS SENSE OP DUTY. — TREAT- 

 MENT OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND CHILDREN. — ATTRI- 

 BUTES OF PERFECT ANIMALS COMPARED WITH THOSE OF 

 IMPERFECT MEN. — CHARACTERISTICS OP HUMANITY, THE 

 ANALOGUES OP THE NOBLER TRAITS IN THE HIGHER ANI- 

 MALS. — TLLLOTSON'S views OP THE MORAL INSTINCTS OP 

 MAN CONFIRMED BY COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY. — THE DOG 

 AND THE MAN. — MAN AND THE DEITY. — SUMMARY OP THE 



