ABSTRACT
Darwin himself never loses sight of the end he has in view, namely to establish his theory of natural selection operating on all organic life from the minutest organism up to the brain of a Newton. Nor does he stop short at the mental, moral, and even religious nature of man. He was a sensitive man, and was unwilling to wound the sensibilities and prejudices of any member of the race. “Natural Selection” is a very small and unaccommodating bottle into which to pour the whole nature of a man. As regards instinct in animals, Darwin is very fond of rudiments and incipiences, but he nowhere attempts to show that instinct is an incipient form of reason and in this surely he is right. Instinct is a thing “sui generis” a quality quite apart and distinct from reason, and nearly all animals are endowed with it, even man himself.
