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cut up into slabs or blocks, and used for the purpose of lining 

 ovens. 



Hamlet Clark. 

 Petropolis, Organ Mountains, 

 Province of Rio Janeiro, February 18, 1857. 



Reason and Instinct. By the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, M.A. 



PART THE SECOND. 



We will now suppose it conceded that the animals in the instances 

 before cited or alluded to are possessed of all we contend for, but the 

 objection raised that the individuals particularized, in each several 

 species to which those animals belonged, are few — are probably the ex- 

 ceptions among their fellows of the said species ; and that, moreover, 

 the different species particularized are so few that they, too, could by 

 no means be looked upon as establishing a law for the whole brute 

 creation, — no, not even if every individual in each distinct species could 

 be shown to be possessed of the full intellectual development and 

 capacity we seem to claim for them : — in what position shall we be 

 then? I think that our argument, notwithstanding such objection, 

 will remain quite untouched. I think one part of the objection is 

 much the same as asserting, and on the somewhat marvellous assump- 

 tion that Newton's intellectual development was an exception among 

 Anglo-Saxon intellects, that therefore the Anglo-Saxon race generally 

 was not possessed of high intellectual capacity or capable of high in- 

 tellectual exertion ; and the other part seems to me to amount to about 

 as much as would the opinion of a shrewd, intelligent, but uneducated 

 and ill-informed man, who, never having before gone to the distance 

 of twenty miles from his home in the Yorkshire Moors, and whose 

 mind being a mere tabula rasa as to everything but the petty interests 

 and experiences of his narrow home-valley, was all at once, by the 

 use of some such improvement upon railways and steamships as Prince 

 Housseyn's carpet, set down for a year or two among Diggers, Bush- 

 men and Australian natives ; the opinion, of course, that mankind, out 

 of Yorkshire, were anything but a "canny" lot; that they had no 

 capacity, no cleverness, no sense ; that they were, indeed, in these 

 respects, a long way behind the colley-dogs he had left behind in his 

 native dale ; an opinion about as reasonable — though to him, no doubt, 

 appearing equally well founded, because equally the result of his own 



