Essay on instinct, and its physical and moral relations1824 |
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... say , that the most patient thought and undivided attention would be necessary . But the time of professional men , whilst engaged in public duties , in this city , is seldom at their own command : or if any portion be at their command ...
... say , that the most patient thought and undivided attention would be necessary . But the time of professional men , whilst engaged in public duties , in this city , is seldom at their own command : or if any portion be at their command ...
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... drawn conclusions on others which can scarcely be admitted , are worth our attention . " It cannot , " says he , " escape observation that all the sagacity and laborious industry exerted in the various instances 12 Arrangement proposed .
... drawn conclusions on others which can scarcely be admitted , are worth our attention . " It cannot , " says he , " escape observation that all the sagacity and laborious industry exerted in the various instances 12 Arrangement proposed .
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... says Dr. Reid , present us with a wonderful variety of instincts ; the nests of birds so similar in their situation and architecture in the same kind , so various in different kinds ; the webs of spiders ; the ball of the silk worm ...
... says Dr. Reid , present us with a wonderful variety of instincts ; the nests of birds so similar in their situation and architecture in the same kind , so various in different kinds ; the webs of spiders ; the ball of the silk worm ...
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... says , " Though you hatch a crow under a hen , and never let it see any of the works of its own kind , the nest it makes shall be the same , to the laying of a stick , with all the other nests of the same species . It cannot be reason ...
... says , " Though you hatch a crow under a hen , and never let it see any of the works of its own kind , the nest it makes shall be the same , to the laying of a stick , with all the other nests of the same species . It cannot be reason ...
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... says , that there is not , in his opinion , " any thing more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals , which thus rises above reason , and falls infinitely short of it . " And he seems to consider it " the immediate direction ...
... says , that there is not , in his opinion , " any thing more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals , which thus rises above reason , and falls infinitely short of it . " And he seems to consider it " the immediate direction ...
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