Dialogues on instinct; with analytical view of the researches on fossil osteology |
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Abstraction action admitted agent angles animal's animals appears argument bee's birds body brutes called certainly cetacea chyle coprolites crocodile Cuvier Deity deny deposits discovered discovery doctrine doubt earth Elasmotherium elephant examined exist extinct facts faculties feet fishes formation former fossil fossil bones FOSSIL OSTEOLOGY fossil remains fresh-water genera genus Geosaurus globe gratification hexagon hippopotamus Honfleur human hyænas hypothesis ichthyosaurus inference inhabitants inquiries insect instance Instinct Intelligence intended kind knowledge known least living lizard mastodon matter means megatherium mental mind Natural Theology nature never observed operation Osteology Paris Basin perfect position present proof pterodactylus quadrupeds qualities question race reason remarkable reptiles resembling respect rhinoceros sagacity seems sensation skeleton solitary wasp species strata structure suppose tapir teeth tertiary theory thing tion tribe unknown vertebræ wasp whole wholly Wiseton
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الصفحة 63 - ... Faculty of an intellectual Being. For my own part, I look upon it as upon the Principle of Gravitation in Bodies, which is not to be explained by any known Qualities inherent in the Bodies themselves, nor from any Laws of Mechanism, but, according to the best Notions of the greatest Philosophers, is an immediate Impression from the first Mover, and the Divine Energy acting in the Creatures.
الصفحة 63 - One in their nature, which are two in ours; And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man.
الصفحة 61 - Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all Places, is more able by his Will to move the Bodies within his boundless uniform Sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the Parts of the Universe, than we are by our Will to move the Parts of our own Bodies.
الصفحة 26 - Now, in all this she differ' entirely from man, who only works well, perhaps at all, after being taught — who works with knowledge of what he is about — and who works, intending and meaning, and, in a word, designing to do what he accomplishes. To all which may be added, though it is rather perhaps the consequence of this difference than a separate and substantive head of diversity, the animal works always uniformly and alike, and all his kind work alike — whereas no two men work alike, nor...
الصفحة 33 - We have taken a first step, or, if you will, laid a foundation. We have ascertained the peculiar or distinctive quality of Instinct, and that which distinguishes it from Reason. It acts without teaching, either from others, that is, instruction, or from the animal itself, that is, experience. This is generally given as the definition or description of Instinct. But we have added another peculiarity, which seems also a necessary part of the description — it acts without knowledge of consequences...
الصفحة 104 - Smellie, however, mentions a Cat which, being confined in a room, in order to get out and meet its mate of the other sex, learnt of itself to open the latch of a door ; and I knew a Pony in the stable here, that used both to open the latch of the stable, and raise the lid of the corn-chest — things which must have been learnt by himself, from his own observation, for no one is likely to have taught them to him. Nay, it was only the other day that. I observed one of the Horses taken in here to grass,...
الصفحة 110 - ... or indeed for any resistance, and knowing that their safety is in flight, when they sleep, appoint one in rotation who acts as sentinel, while the rest are asleep. If a man approaches, the sentinel walks towards him as if to reconnoitre or see whether he may be deterred from coming near — if the man continues, he neighs aloud and in a peculiar tone, which rouses the herd and all gallop away, the sentinel bringing up the rear.
الصفحة 129 - Science, at least they somewhat lower her by showing her cultivators trying a trade they no more can, or even ought to excel in, than poets in solving questions of fluxions. It is since these meetings, otherwise useful and excellent, rose into eloquence, that I have seen a mathematical discussion, by a very able and learned man, in two consecutive pages of which I reckoned up above twenty metaphors — all tending to darken the subject — to say nothing of poetical quotations without any mercy....
الصفحة 61 - And the instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful, ever-living agent, who, being in all places, is more able by his will to move the bodies within his boundless uniform sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe, than we are by our will to move the parts of our bodies.
الصفحة 214 - Principia,' if he be a tolerably good mathematician, can follow the whole chain of demonstration by which the universality of gravitation is deduced from the fact that it is a power acting inversely as the square of the distance to the centre of attraction. Satisfying himself of the laws which regulate the motion of bodies in trajectories around given centres, he can convince himself of the sublime truths unfolded in that immortal work, and must yield his assent to this position, that...