Excerpt from Instinct Displayed in a Collection of Well-Authenticated Facts: Exemplifying the Extraordinary Sagacity of Various Species of the Animal Creation
The distinctions between Reason and Instinct are difficult to ascertain: to define their exact limits has exercised the ingenuity of the most profound philosophers, hitherto, without success. Nor can the learned agree as to the nature of that wonderful quality, that guides every creature to take the best means of procuring its own enjoyment, and of preserving its species by the most admirable care of its progeny. Some degrade this hidden impulse to a mere mechanical operation; whilst others exalt it to a level with reason, that proud prerogative of man.
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