The Consolations of Science: Or, Contributions From Science to the Hope of ...
The Consolations of Science: Or, Contributions From Science to the Hope of ...
Jacob Straub
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Besides, his main experiences, as to his own acts and deportments, were of close observation of the keeper's movements, with a constant retention of their effects upon himself. Then that he should have recurred to his keeper's hand, with a view to mimic the mode of relief that he just experienced, was but in accordance with his organic nature and his lifelong training. That the motion should be so human like — so like one using his arm in handling an object — ^is from the peculiar proxy arrange...ment of his organization, and is not essentially unlike extending his trunk to his food and conveying it to his mouth, or the bird seizing the twig and adjusting it to its nest — a mode of motion that it never learned nor otherwise acquired, but was part of it at its birth — a wonderful piece of mentality, yet wholly below reason. People are often led to misjudge that because such phenomena are in strong resemblance to acts of reason. INTELLECT PUBTHEB CONSroEHED. 153 they are necessarily attributable to reason alone ; not hav- ing folly considered the domain of instinct and the va- riety of purposes to which it may be extended by training, and what results may, and often do, thus follow from the many correlated chains of experiences at the disposal of an acute mind which is yet wholly on the plane of instinct.
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