On the Connexion of Reason with Instinct. 56C5 



tell him (o attend the butcher: he carried his character in his look, and so gained the 

 situation. 



" His honest, sonsie,* bawsn't face 

 Aye gat him friends in ilka place." 



And greatly respected he was by all my neighbours for his honesty and quiet good 

 nature. With the children he was an especial favourite, and constant attendant in 

 their walks. A more intelligent, " faithful tyke '' there could not be. He lived with 

 me fifteen years. Since his death I dare not keep another : I cannot bear these part- 

 ings. I could tell very many things about him showing a something winch throws 

 mere instinct into the shade, but must not trouble you farther, beyond mentioning 

 that, however good a character he had, bis name (Hassan f ) got one of my little sons 

 for a time a bad name. On removing to Fowey a lady inquired of him the dog's 

 name. He said, " Hassan, madam.'' She mistook it for "Ask him, madam,'' and 

 thought him impertinent. A friend to whom she mentioned it explained. From that 

 time both dog and boy became favourites with her. The dog soon learned to lift the 

 latch of the door leading to her kitchen, and many a piece he got by it. — Id. 



On the Connexion of Reason with Instinct. 

 By Jonathan Couch, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



In the second part of the Rev. J. C. Atkinson's paper on ■ Reason 

 and Instinct' (Zool. 5565), that gentleman has done me the honour to 

 refer to my work, entitled ' Illustrations of Instinct,' in which I have 

 endeavoured to define the boundary and explain the nature of that 

 faculty of a living animal, as distinguished from reason on the one 

 side and unconscious irritability on the other; both of which I believe 

 to exist in connexion with it, as well in the various orders of the 

 higher animals as in man himself. 



But, in the reference made to my work, a quotation is made, which, 

 in the insulated condition in which it stands, appears to me to be 

 capable of conveying an impression of my meaning very different 

 from that which it was my intention to inculcate, and which therefore 

 I will endeavour to explain. 



The quotation to which I refer is contained in the words, that 

 " Reason in brutes is the servant of instinct," from which it is pro- 

 bable that readers who have not followed the chain of observations 



* He had, like the dog of Burns, " a white stripe down the face.'' 

 f "The camel driver.'' 

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