Outing . n the sun for the same they reason about it all? Does eachknow the particular insect it wants? Thereis no knowledge about it as we use theterm; there is only an inward impulse ortendency which had its origin in regionsbeyond our ken, as in the functions of ourown bodies. There are ten thousand curious and won-derful things in both the animal and vege-table worlds, and in the inorganic world aswell, but it is only in a poetic and imagina-tive sense that we can speak of them as theresult of intelligence on the part of thethings themselves; we personify the thingswhen we do so.
Outing . n the sun for the same they reason about it all? Does eachknow the particular insect it wants? Thereis no knowledge about it as we use theterm; there is only an inward impulse ortendency which had its origin in regionsbeyond our ken, as in the functions of ourown bodies. There are ten thousand curious and won-derful things in both the animal and vege-table worlds, and in the inorganic world aswell, but it is only in a poetic and imagina-tive sense that we can speak of them as theresult of intelligence on the part of thethings themselves; we personify the thingswhen we do so. The universe is pervadedby mind, or with something for which wehave no other name. But it is not as aningenious machine, say the modern print-ing-press, is pervaded by mind. The ma-chine is a senseless tool in the hands of anexternal intelligence, but in nature we seethat the intelligence is within and is in-separable from it. The machine is theresult of mind, but things in nature seemthe organs of TALES OF A COLLECTOR OFWHISKERS BY j: ARCHIBALD McKACKNEY, MUS. DOC. , etc. ILLUSTRATED BY WALLACE MORGAN VII.—THE ABDICATION OF KING WILKINS I.
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