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Show Race Memory of Birds. I am never tired of watching my barn-door fowls on tho occasion when tho sweep comes, on the moment when tho brush emerges from tho top of tho chimney whntover the fowls aro doing thoy rush In overy direction seeking for cover, convinced that an nwful enemy has appeared on the roof A cap thrown high in the air has tho sanio offect; It wakos tho lat ent remembrance of tho bird of prey they seo what may bo called tho vision of the Ideal hawk, which Is fnr stronger strong-er nnd moro deeply Imbeddod in their very physiology than nny momontnry Imago enn be. This theor of Inherited Inherit-ed raco memory seems to throw light upon tho origin of instinct. Thus animals ani-mals often live and move as If lm-pollod lm-pollod by ronson and foreknowledge. Foar, ofton repeated, calls forth tho long "oars of tho rabbit." From Car-pontor's Car-pontor's "Tho Art of Cientlon." |