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General view of different writers opinions on the subject: The arrangement proposed. Instinct contrasted with reason.

Hancock, Thomas

Pages: 7 –16

This chapter begins with a review of different opinions on the subject of instinct from writers on Natural History, Physiology, and Philosophy. The arrangement, therefore, which I propose to myself in the elucidation of the subject, will comprise the following considerations: viz. 1st. How far...

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Examples of instinct in the works of animals, and the care of their young, and choice of foodRemarks on the adaptation of structure to climate, and of habit and disposition to structure.

Hancock, Thomas

Pages: 17 –39

Every animal of the species has equal skill from the beginning, without teaching, without experience or habit. Every one has its art by a kind of inspiration; not that it is inspired with the principles or rules of the art, but with the ability and inclination of working in it to perfection,...

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Of the instincts in man.

Hancock, Thomas

Pages: 40 –51

This chapter considers a few of those simple instinctive operations which belong to Man himself;—operations, which, being of paramount importance to the individual welfare of the human creature, notwithstanding he is dignified by his rational powers, have not been entrusted to Reason, we may...

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Of certain actions in the lower animals, in some degree distinguishable from the operation of instinct.

Hancock, Thomas

Pages: 52 –101

Having given a few examples of Instinct, or of a power operating above the conscious intelligence of the creature, this chapter notices certain actions of the lower animals; some of which seem to be referable to human instruction, some to a conscious intelligence or modified rationality in the...

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Of the accommodating power of instinct, and inferences from the facts.

Hancock, Thomas

Pages: 102 –111

In the preceding Chapter, I have spoken of pure Instincts, which act without any instruction, prior to all experience. I have also spoken of the natural senses and their perfection in man and the brutes, as well as of some anomalous acts of the latter exhibited in their migrations; and have...

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Of the ascending scale of instinctive or unconscious motionsComprising inanimate, vegetable, and animal motions.

Hancock, Thomas

Pages: 112 –142

I am ready to believe that we shall be better able to judge of the relation, which appears to subsist between Instinct and the higher attributes of the human mind, as well as of that subsisting between man and the brute, after we have ascended the scale of natural operations, even from those of...

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On the zoological lectures of Wm. Lawrence, F. R. S.

Hancock, Thomas

Pages: 143 –161

It may not be irrelevant in this place to notice what different conclusions may be drawn from the same facts. Since most of the preceding observations have been written, I have had the curiosity to examine some of the reasonings of the respectable writer whose name is at the head of this Chapter:...

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RecapitulationThe perfection of instinct in its physical operations, and the imperfection of human reason.

Hancock, Thomas

Pages: 162 –176

Having now considered those instinctive motions in organized matter, which indicate the operation of a moving power, called Mind, vitally inherent in every animated structure, and acting very frequently without the creature's direction,—whether it may act according to chemical or mechanical laws,...

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Of reason, and the extremes of opinion respecting itIts extent or uses, and limitation or insufficiency.

Hancock, Thomas

Pages: 177 –196

This chapter on reason first examines the extremes of opinion respecting it. It may be proper, therefore, to show, not only, positively, what Reason, in its fair legitimate acceptation, can do; but negatively, what it can not do. In this way we shall have a more distinct notion, both of its value...

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Of the opinions of philosophers on the subject of a divine intelligence in the human mind.

Hancock, Thomas

Pages: 199 –227

I proceed next to treat of Instinct in its moral relations, a subject involving the highest privileges of man. The chapter begins with a discussion of authorities in support of this view and an examination of the testimonies in favor of such a principle analogous to Instinct and superior to...

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