Instinct: Its Office in the Animal Kingdom, and Its Relation to the Higher Powers in ManG.P. Putnam & Sons, 1872 - 307 Seiten |
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Seite 28 - With the presence of a certain organ goes, one may say, almost always a native aptitude for its use. " Has the bird a gland for the secretion of oil ? She knows instinctively how to press the oil from the gland, and apply it to the feather.
Seite 200 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Seite 307 - it is not too much to say that the horrible dread of unknown evil hangs like a thick cloud over savage life, and embitters every pleasure." These miserable and indirect consequences of our highest faculties may be compared with the incidental and occasional mistakes of the instincts of the lower animals.
Seite 185 - ... the being needs to perform, as an individual or representative of a species ; but which he could not possibly learn to perform before he needs to act...
Seite 26 - An instinct," says Dr. Whately, 6 "is a blind tendency to some mode of action independent of any consideration on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.
Seite i - Instinct — Its Office in the Animal Kingdom, and Its Relation to the Higher Powers in Man.
Seite 28 - Has the bird a gland for the secretion of oil? She knows instinctively how to press the oil from the gland, and apply it to the feather. Has the rattlesnake the grooved tooth and gland of poison? He knows without instruction how to make both structure and function most effective against his enemies. Has the silk-worm the function of secreting the fluid silk? At the proper time she winds the cocoon such as she has never seen, as thousands before have done; and thus without instruction, pattern, or...
Seite 307 - If, however, we include under the term "religion" the belief in unseen or spiritual agencies, the case is wholly different; for this belief seems to be almost universal with the less civilised races. Nor is it difficult to comprehend how it arose. As soon as the important faculties of the imagination, wonder, and curiosity, together with some power of reasoning, had become partially developed, man would naturally...
Seite v - ... a belief, judgment, cognition, which as the result of no anterior consciousness, is, like the products of animal instinct, the intelligent effect of (as far as we are concerned) an unknowing cause. In like manner, we can hardly find more suitable expressions to indicate those incomprehensible spontaneities themselves, of which the primary facts of consciousness are the manifestations, than rational or intellectual Instincts.
Seite 280 - These instinctive principles are — 1. Belief in some supernatural being — or beings. 2. Belief in accountability, or relationship to that being in such measure as for good or evil to come from it. 3. Belief in immortality, and the continuance of this relation after death. 4. The Instinct of prayer, as a means of establishing relations with this being. 5. The Instinct of worship, including the emotion of veneration and its expression.