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shead speaks of syllogisms and of reasoning as if they were automatic, and 
he thXwe reason in syllogism, Now I do not think so, -we are not 
conscious of doing it. That is clear. It is true that our tme reasonings may 
he reduced to syllogisms, and that we can detect correct mteMec ual opm- 
tions by finding whether they vary from that form or not But the annual 
creation especMy in its higher forms, is capable of making an induction, 
and that asM understand it, and as I read in all logical treatises, is an intel- 
lectual act Mr. Morshead seems also to think that the act o genera .ra- 
tion is not an intellectual act ; but we are met with the great 
the paper has not exactly defined reason, mtellige: nee, r md other attr b d s 
KSZS Other’ days of the 
possessed of something different from instinct 
Mr. Bedme.-How can you teach a dog to know founclay trom 
da 5 Mr! Kol.-Ihave done so. The author of the paper seems to think that 
much of what the animal does, proceeds from its affections, ^ an t 
affections are instinctive. But to me that f 0 t cha- 
sss S'zrr^^eiings, u - - 
rat Mr a BEnS-Will you define what ^0™^^’ witU me , 
Mr "Row — I have already said, and Mr. • 
that H is an irresistible feeling impelling the subject 
He has also stated that man acts to a great ext P P , 
I cannot agree with him, for, as a rational being, ■ 1 e Mn . 
my reason. The week before last I had an Z 
I was standing with some others m front of a magic * ^ 
about to be used, when an explosion of gas took place 1 V > 
was pure instinct. But reason taught me that after ^“iiem ojwill 
danger had passed also. Mr. Morshead, however, ^ “f n J tm0 . 
account for it. We will say that the jump the danger was over, 
ment I reasoned that, the explosion having taken P^, ^ refers to 
This was something more than an act of me “ 0ry N “j'havea grea t aversion 
the fear which some people entertain of a cow. N g 
or four fell an easy prey— E d. 
