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ON INSTINCT IN MAN AND ANIMALS 
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fearlessness of being lost, his accurate perception of direction 
and of distance, and he is thus able very soon to acquire a 
knowledge of the district that seems marvellous to a civilised 
man ■ but my own observation of savages in forest countries 
has convinced me that they find their way by the use of no 
other faculties than those which we ourselves possess. It 
appears to me, therefore, that to call in the aid of a new and 
mysterious power to account for savages being able to do that 
which, under similar conditions, we could almost all of us 
perform, although perhaps less perfectly, is almost ludicrously 
unnecessary. 
In the next essay I shall attempt to show that much of 
what has been attributed to instinct in birds can be also 
very well explained by crediting them with those faculties of 
observation, memory, and imitation, and with that limited 
amount of reason, which they undoubtedly exhibit. 
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