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Show Two Kinds of Doing. A subject that naturalists are al waya talking about and never comic to any conclusion about la the difference differ-ence between instinct and reason. We are accustomed to say that animals do things by Instinct and man by reason. rea-son. Hut It la quite sure that some anlmala do some things by reason and by instinct. And It also seems quite sure that there la no sharp dividing line separating these two kinds of doing. do-ing. Perbapa one of the most useful distinctions between Instinct and reason rea-son la to connMer as Instinctive all those things that animals can do without with-out havlsg bad a chance to learn tbem by Imitation or by being taught or by any other kind of experience; and to consider aa acts of reason those things that animals learn to do and that tbey think about while they are doing them, at leaat while they are doing them for the Drat few tlmea. Thla distinction sounds pretty clear In theory, but the difficulty la to know bow to apply It In eractlce. St Nicholas. |