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Show Animal Existence. All the actions and movement of tho animal world may bo divided into threo classes Involuntary, instinctive and rational. Tho former being common com-mon to ovcry vital structure, both animal ani-mal and vegetable; and tho two latter being possessed, In various proportions, propor-tions, both by man and every class of tho lower animals. Instinct is a natural nat-ural propensity prior to experience, and Independent of instruction, tending tend-ing to self-proscrvatlon or tho perpetuity perpe-tuity of the race; whllo rational actions ac-tions aro always tho result of Instruction Instruc-tion or dellbr 'lon, directed to some end of which the animal is conscious, and for tho accomplishment of which ho is capablo of selecting and adapting adapt-ing appropriate means. |