Salad for the solitary and the social: . J. THE MUTE CREATION. We do not propose any metaphysical or psychologicalinquiry as to whether animals possess reasoning powers; butrather to group together for our amusement some of the illus-trative instances which seem to favor such a conclusion. Vol-umes have been written about the economy of the ants, andthe monarchy of the bees, as well as of sagacious dogs andtheir doings, cats and their cunning ways, parrots and theirprattle, and monkeys and their comic manoeuvres. Let us thencon over some of these curious connecting links in the greatchain of c
Salad for the solitary and the social: . J. THE MUTE CREATION. We do not propose any metaphysical or psychologicalinquiry as to whether animals possess reasoning powers; butrather to group together for our amusement some of the illus-trative instances which seem to favor such a conclusion. Vol-umes have been written about the economy of the ants, andthe monarchy of the bees, as well as of sagacious dogs andtheir doings, cats and their cunning ways, parrots and theirprattle, and monkeys and their comic manoeuvres. Let us thencon over some of these curious connecting links in the greatchain of creation, with its boasted lord—the paragon ofanimals. 480 THE MUTE CREATION. Instinct seems to be the incipient state of reason, although theinstinctive sensations of which animals are the subjects cannotbe properly classed in the same category with the ideas or therationative process of the human mind. Here is the dividingline between instinct and reason, and yet it is difficult for themetaphysician to define the boundaries of each, sin
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