 | 1848 - 614 Seiten
...developed in other animals the lower we descend in the scale. " An Instinct is, as has been said before, a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent...of the agent of the end to which the action leads. Hunger and thirst are no less an instinct in the adult than the desire of the new-born babe to suck,... | |
 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1847 - 50 Seiten
...developed in other animals, the lower we descend in the scale. An Instinct is, as has been said above, a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent...of the agent, of the end to which the action leads. Hunger and thirst are no less an instinct in the adult, than the desire of the new-born babe to suck,... | |
 | 1848 - 636 Seiten
...developed in other animals the lower we descend in the scale. " An instinct is, as has been said before, a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent...of the agent of the end to which the action leads. Hunger and thirst are DO less an instinct in the adult than the desire of the new-born babe to suck,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 Seiten
...developed in other animals the lower we descend in the scale. •' An Instinct is, as has been said before, a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent...of the agent of the end to which the action leads. Hunger and thirst are no less an instinct in the adult than the desire of the new-born babe to suck,... | |
 | Thomas Ragg - 1858 - 456 Seiten
...operation as soon as the opportunity presents itself. That impulse is truly an Instinct ; for it is " a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent...of the agent of the end to which the action leads." In this, the human infant only partakes of the same Instinct with the general race of mammals ; and... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - 698 Seiten
...propensity prior to experience and independent of instruction." "An instinct," says Dr. Whately,* "is a blind tendency to some mode of action independent...the agent, of the end to which the action leads." There are two classes of actions, which, in the inferior animals, have been referred to instinct as... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1861 - 372 Seiten
...developed in other animals, the lower we descend in the scale. An Instinct is, as has been said above, a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent...of the agent, of the end to which the action leads. Hunger and thirst are no less an instinct in the adult, than the desire of the new-born babe to suck,... | |
 | William Watson English - 1865 - 190 Seiten
...experience, and independent of instruction.' 'An instinct? says Dr. Whateley (Tract on Instinct, p. 21), 'is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent...the agent, of the end to which the action leads.' 'There are two classes of actions, which, in the inferior animals, have been referred to instinct as... | |
 | Paul Ansel Chadbourne - 1872 - 316 Seiten
..."-Instinct is a propensity prior to experience and independent of instruction." Whately says, "Instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent...the agent, of the end to which the action leads." Hamilton gives this definition, "Instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorant 'ly a work... | |
 | Paul Ansel Chadbourne - 1872 - 318 Seiten
...experience or instruction. But he adds this important element to Paley's definition, that this tendency is independent of any consideration on the part of the agent of the end to which the action leads. Here then we have another very sweeping assertion, for it puts every instinctive act on a level with... | |
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An instinct," says Dr. Whately,* "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. 
