Origin of Species Variorum

→ as Pierre Huber expresses it, of judgment or reason, 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

of judgment or reason, as Pierre Huber expresses it, 1872

→ feeling the benefit of 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

deriving any benefit from 1872

But I could show that none of these characters

~~of instinct~~

of instinct

are universal. A little

dose

dose,

→as Pierre Huber expresses it, of judgment or reason, often comes into play, even

with

animals

~~very~~

very

low in the scale of nature.

Frederick Cuvier and several of the older metaphysicians have compared instinct with habit. This comparison gives, I think,

a remarkably

accurate notion of the frame of mind under which an instinctive action is performed, but not

necessarily of

its origin. How unconsciously many habitual actions are performed, indeed not rarely in direct opposition to our conscious will! yet they may be modified by the will or reason. Habits easily become associated with other habits,

~~and~~

and

with certain periods of

time,

time

and states of the

body

body.

When once acquired, they often remain constant throughout

life

life.

Several other points of resemblance between instincts and habits could be pointed out. As in repeating a well-known song, so in instincts, one action follows another by a sort of rhythm; if a person be interrupted in a song, or in repeating anything by rote, he is generally forced to go back to recover the habitual train of

thought;

thought:

so P. Huber found it was with a caterpillar, which makes a very complicated hammock; for if he took a caterpillar which had completed its hammock up to, say, the sixth stage of construction, and put it into a hammock completed up only to the third stage, the caterpillar simply re-performed the fourth, fifth, and sixth stages of construction. If, however, a caterpillar were taken out of a hammock made up, for instance, to the third stage, and were put into one finished up to the sixth stage, so that much of its

work

work,

was already done for it, far from →feeling the benefit of this, it was much embarrassed,

and

and,

in order to complete its hammock, seemed forced to start from the third stage, where it had left off, and thus tried to complete the already finished work.