GATHERED BY THE WAY 



unlearned, unconscious kind, — the intelligence in- 

 nate in nature. We use the word to distinguish a 

 gift or faculty which animals possess, and which is 

 independent of instruction and experience, from the 

 mental equipment of man which depends mainly 

 upon instruction and experience. A man has to be 

 taught to do that which the lower animals do from 

 nature. Hence the animals do not progress in 

 knowledge, while man's progress is almost limitless. 

 A man is an animal born again into a higher spirit- 

 ual plane. He has lost or shed many of his animal 

 instincts in the process, but he has gained the ca- 

 pacity for great and wonderful improvement. 



Instinct is opposed to reason, to reflection, to 

 thought, — to that kind of intelligence which knows 

 and takes cognizance of itself. Instinct is that lower 

 form of intelligence which acts through the senses, — 

 sense perception, sense association, sense memory, — 

 which we share with the animals, though their eyes 

 and ears and noses are often quicker and keener 

 than ours. Hence the animals know only the present, 

 visible, objective world, while man through his gift 

 of reason and thought knows the inward world of 

 ideas and ideal relations. 



An animal for the most part knows all that it is 

 necessary for it to know as soon as it reaches ma- 

 turity; what it learns beyond that, what it learns 

 at the hands of the animal-trainer, for instance, it 

 learns slowly, through a long repetition of the pro- 

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