Show I KIND SUPERSEDED STISCT now MAJ O IMS TJOSr 3IA3V IV STIVCT3 FC5SES3ED ITV TOE LOWER AXIMALS If the doctrine be true that man is really the heir of all the various epocies and genera of the anlma kingdom It seems a little hard upon us Fays the American Analyt that r = rl even byway of exception inherit none of the most marvelous instinct of thoteispcclca and genera and have to be content with those greater great-er but purely human faculties by whichever l the most wonderful animal Instincts have been somehow extinguished Sir John Lubbock mainlalnjwlth a good deal of plausibility plaus-ibility that there are Insect and very likely even higher animal which perceive colors of which wo have no glimpse andbear sounds which are to us inaudible Yet we never bear of a human retina that includes in its vision those colors depending on vibrations of the ether which are too slow or too rapid for I our ordinary eye nor of a human ear which Is entranced with music that to thegreat majority of our species spe-cies Is absolutely Inaudible Again we never hear cf a human being who could perform the feat of which we were told only I recently recent-ly of a bloodhound In a dark night it followed up for threo mllea the trail of a thief nith whom the bloodhound could have never been In contact he had just purlolnet home rolls often from the lanyard in which the dog was chained up and dually sat down under the tree In 1 which the man had taken refuge 1Vhywe wonder are those finer powersfordkcrlmlnatiogand following follow-ing the trick of tho scent which BO many of the lower animals poeecas entirely extinguished In m n if man bo the real heir of all the various va-rious genera which show power inferior in-ferior to hfs own Wo see no trace in animals of thai high enjoyment ot the finer scents which make the blossoming of the spring flowers so great a delight to human being and yet men are entirely en-tirely destitute of that almost u tier ti-er riuir lower of tracking the paUl of an odor which teems to lie one of the principal gifts of many quadrupeds quadru-peds and some birds It is the same with the power of a dog or cat to find itswaj back to a home to which it Is attached but from which It has been taken by a route that It cannot can-not possibly follow on its return even if it had tbo power of o lIng l-ing that route which usually it has not 2fothlng could be more convenient con-venient tban tuch a power to a lost child But no one ever heard of any child who possessed it bill I more enviable Is that instinct possessed by so many bird Of cross nt j lug great tracts of land and ten without with-out apparently any landmarks or seamarks to guide them and of reaching quarter the globe hlch many of them have never visited before while those who have visited It before have not viited it often enough to learn the way at least ly any rule which in like circumstances circum-stances would bo of any use to human intelligence The magna ton birds must certainly bo In raosloncf the ren rsorinstlncts entirely I beyond the range of human imagination and yet no ono ever heard of the survival ofsuch a sense of instinct in any member of our rare It ma bosald Indeed that men have either inherited or rriio duced the slavevmaking Instinct oi come hat of unfortunate the military and ants degrading though instinct dock not appear to have been inherited by any of the higher animals which intervene between the insects and our own race but this only enhances tho irony of our destiny If we do indeed In any sense inherit from these insect aria ocracies one of the most disastrous Instincts of the audacious but Indolent In-dolent creUu res which fihb much better than tiny work If we have not inherited the architectural Ins tlncts of bees or Leavers tar the pinning instincts otcplderg nor tho tower of the dog to track out his iomelt b spittle SId that we should have inherited the ono disastrous Instinct of the nut by which it makes itself dependent on a morn timid and Industrious species of Its own race and thereby loses the lower to help itself YhatUfctill more curious It that Ten where human beings hare wholly exceptional and unheardof powers they betray no traces of the exceptional and unheard powers of the races whose vital organization ve are said to Inherit The occa ional appearance of very rare mathematical power for instance so far from being in any sense explicable ex-plicable from below looks much more like Inspiration from above The calculating boy who could not even give any account the process whereby he arrived at correct results re-sults which the mathematician took come time to verify certainly was not reviving In himself aOy of the rare powers of the lower tribes of animals Xor do the prodigies in music who show such marvelous power In infancy recall to us any Instinct of the bird the only I musical nature except ourselves Still less of course does great moral genius he genius of Howard or a Clark son suegcet any reminiscence of what happens In the world of animal ani-mal life |