Instinct and Mind. 
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[July, 
(collies). I neither asserted nor inferred that there was no 
distinction between them in capacity ; nor do I say or infer 
“ that every shepherd’s dog is equal in intelligence to every 
other shepherd’s dog but I do say that one shepherd s dog 
displays the same instinCts as every other shepherd s dog. 
All this is very puerile, and I am almost ashamed in being 
compelled to write it. . . , r . 
The broad distinction I draw is that instinctive mentality 
(the animal attribute) and abstract intellectuality (the attri- 
bute of man) are not the same, not even in origin. The one, 
being derived from the senses, is shared in common with the 
animal and animal man ; the other, the intellectuality which 
deals in abstractions, has no place in the sensuous ex- 
pressions, and is possessed by man alone. Animal instincts 
are developed in particular directions, and the characteristics 
they exemplify run through the whole race, tribe, or species. 
If it were not for this particular tribal development there 
would be no distinction as class, variety, race, or species, 
and all animation would be one indistinguishable mass or 
confusion. I do not suppose that the peculiar character- 
istic running through the tribe has its expression or develop- 
ment in an equal degree in each individual composing it, as 
I do not suppose that all men have the critical acumen in 
an equal degree ; but I do suppose that all men have a 
critical acumen. , , . r . f 
As R. N. M. appears wholly to have mistaken the dnit ot 
the argument, — for in no way do I infer that the instinctive 
mentality is equal in each member of the species,— -perhaps 
he will trouble himself by reading the article again, when 
probably he may take a new view of the subject, and assure 
himself that the author does not ascribe a mental equality 
to the members of each species. 
