Excerpt from The Philosophy of Instinct and Reason<br><br>The actions of the inferior animals, in as far as they conduce to some particular end, and appear, therefore, to imply motive and foresight, are in ge neral referred to instinct {while all those of man of a similar character are in turn traced to reason. There is commonly displayed the utmost unwilling ness to allow any glimmerings of Reason to brutes, since such an admission seems to exalt them be yond their proper sphere, by conceding to them a portion of what we have been accustomed to con sider the chief attribute of man; and an equal repug nance to acknowledge that any of the actions of man are Instinctive, since he appears to be humbled by being represented as ever actuated by any princi ple in common with brutes. The epithet of Ra tional Being is very generally appropriated to man.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.