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Show Unconscious Cerebration. Lord Avebury, better known as Sir Jbhn Lubbock, the celebrated naturalist natural-ist writes- "If many are prone to exaggerate ex-aggerate the Intellectual powers of dogs and horses and elephants, others so to the opposite extreme. Descartes, we know looked on animals as mere automata auto-mata Even recently Bethe, Uexkull and other writers have denied the existence ex-istence of any psychic powers, at any rate in Invertebrate animals, which they explain as reflex machine. I confess con-fess Indeed, that I cannot understand how' any one who loves animals, or ever has devoted any study to them, can doubt that they possess some power pow-er of reason. Many of their actions are unconscious and Instinctive: so aro some of ours, as we may see by watching watch-ing a child, but practice enables us to walk or run almost automatically. "Mr. Gladstone told me," continues Lord Avebury, pursuing his theme, "that once when he was forming one of '' his governments he had some difficulty In arranging the places. He nnd Mrs. Gladstone wrote down the titles of the offices and the names of the Llboral leaders on pieces of paper and tried all the evening, but in vain, to fit thorn together. to-gether. At last they gave It up and went to bed. When Mr. Gladstono awoke in the morning everything was satisfactorily arranged in his head; l)is brain had worked it out for him during his sleep. This was not conscious reason rea-son and certainly was not Instinctive. Dr. Carpenter gave to such action tho name of unconscious cerebration." In further proof that man does many things almost automatically Lord Avebury Ave-bury gives this incident: "I have botn for over forty yeara a director of a company, which changed Its' olficca twenty years ago, and I have not Unce had any occasion to enter our old house. One morning this summer, however, I was going to a committee in our present pres-ent house, but thinking of other things, I walked past our door and two or ; threo intervening houses and Into the porch of our old office." i |