LOWELL LECTURES: 1871. INSTINCT: ITS OFFICE IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, AND ITS RELATION TO THE HIGHER POWERS IN MAN. BY P. A. CHADBOURNE, LL.D., ་་་ RELATIONS OF NATURAL HISTORY," "NATURAL AUTHOR OF NEW YORK: GEO. P. PUTNAM & SONS, ASSOCIATION BUILDING. 1872. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by GEO. P. PUTNAM & SONS, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. Wm. McCrea & Co., Stereotypers, Newburgh, N. Y. To GIDEON L. SOULE, LL.D., PRINCIPAL OF PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY. SIR,-I dedicate these Lectures to you with grateful remembrance of your counsels and instruction, and with sincere admiration for that scholarship and wisdom which, for fifty years, have done so much for the honor and usefulness of the Institution over which you preside. With great respect and esteem, I am most truly yours, P. A. CHADBOURNE. 6492 1248 (RECAP) 29113 "But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members."-ROMANS, chap. vii. ver. 23. "But mind this: the more we observe and study, the wider the range of the automatic and instinctive principles in body and mind and morals, and the narrower the limits of the self-determining, conscious movement."-HOLMES, Autocrat of Breakfast Table, p. 95. "As dependent upon bodily organization, as actuated by sensual propensities and animal wants [man], belongs to matter, and, in this respect, he is the slave of necessity. But what man holds of matter does not make up his personality. *** He is conscious to himself of faculties not comprised in the chain of physical necessity."-HAMILTON, Metaphysics (BowEN), p. 16. -"We can hardly find a more suitable expression to indicate those incomprehensible spontaneities themselves, of which the primary facts of consciousness are the manifestations, than rational, or intellectual Instincts."—Ibid., p. 505. "Now it may be that what we call instinct here, has not been sufficiently investigated. We hear men speak of the higher instincts and of rational instincts. Are these, then, for the higher nature what the lower instincts are for the lower? As many view it, What is Conscience but a rational instinct, a guide without comprehension, but rational, because it reveals itself as the voice of God, which all instinct is, without thus revealing itself?"-President HOPKINS, Moral Science, 1st Ed., p. 244. |