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why or for what good end has it is performed it, in no way said to be intuition. But it could be shown that more of these qualifications are as in all cases strictly accurate. invariable. A little dose, as Huber expresses it, of judgment or reason often comes into play, even in animals very low in the scale of nature.

(Fred. Cuvier & several of the older metaphysicians have compared instinct to habit. This comparison gives, I think, a remarkably accurate notion of the frame of mind under which an instinctive action is performed, but not of necessity of its origin. How unconsciously many an habitual action is performed, indeed not rarely in direct opposition to our conscious will; ; yet they may be modified by the reason. Habits easily become associated with other actions, with a certain time of day or states of the body. When once acquired, they often remain constant throughout life. An action may almost be called an instinct complex trick Several other points of resemblance between instincts & habits might be pointed out: thus, it has been noticed that in instincts, one action follows another by a sort of [rhythm], as in singing a song: if a person be interrupted in singing a song or in repeating anything by rote, he generally has to go back to recover the habitual train of thought; so P. Huber

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