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Ch. II.

first developed in the lowest organisms, we need not have it is as hopeless to enquire, any more than as how life first originated. These These are problems for the distant future, if in they are ever to be solved. grasped by man.)

(As Man has the same senses with the lower animals, though his fundamental intuitions intuitions must be the same. Man has also some few instincts, the same in common in common with the lower animals; as that of self-preservation, the sexual love, of the sexes, the passionate love of the mother for her new-born infant, who causes her so much labour & infinite trouble & anxiety, & shows at first shows no love in return; & especially the power of sucking in possessed by the infant.— of bringing so many muscles into action in the act of sucking. It is probable that man has somewhat It is probable that man has fewer instincts than the higher apes the fewer instincts than have possessed by man are somewhat fewer than those of the higher apes. But when we hear that the Orang in the Eastern islands & the Chimpanzee in Africa both build platforms to on which to sleep on, we cannot feel sure that they have not been led to this work by common habit, through possessing similar powers of reason. The apes no doubt avoid poisonous the many