CHAPTER XVI. 



The Faculty of Thought.— Emotion and Thought. — Instinct 

 and Reason. — Monkeys Reason. — Some Examples. 



The study of biology has revealed many facts 

 which conspire to show that the incipient forms 

 of animal and vegetable life are the same in those 

 two great kingdoms ; and parallel with this fact 

 I think it can be shown that the faculty of ex- 

 pression goes hand in hand with life. And why 

 should not this be the case? From the stand- 

 point of religion, I cannot see why the bounty 

 of God should not be equal to such a gift, nor 

 can I conceive of a more sublime act of univer- 

 sal justice than that all things endowed with 

 thought, however feeble, should be endowed with 

 the power of expressing it. From the stand- 

 point of evolution, I cannot understand by what 

 rule Nature would have worked to develop the 

 emotions, sensations, and faculties alike in all 

 these various forms, and make this one excep- 

 tion in the case of speech. It does not seem m 



keeping with her laws. From the stand-point of 

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