low, wet; a neutral gray colour constitutes a favourable sign in the evening, an unfavourable one in the morning. The clouds again are full of meaning in themselves. If their forms are soft, undefined, and feathery, the weather will be fine; if their edges are hard, sharp, and definite, it will be foul. Generally speaking, any deep unusual hues betoken wind or rain; while the more quiet and delicate tints bespeak fair weather." These signs show the affinities and repulsions in air-currents-the instinct of the Winds. The Needle is instinctively attracted to the magnet. The principle is developed onward and upward in the scale of genera or species, till it reaches man-till, but for a minute examination of how it is produced, we might, as in olden days, believe that certain animals were endowed with supernatural powers-were gods in the form of beasts. An illustration or two may be useful, to show how nearly allied animals are to man by instinct, so called; but which more properly might be called animal reason. HORSES-UNITY IS STRENGTH.- "When a boy, being at Whitchurch, near Blandford, Dorset, I noticed two cart-horses that were driven from a farm-yard to drink. The brook was frozen over, and one horse struck with his foot to break the ice, but it was too hard to yield. The two horses then, standing side by side, lifted each a foot simultaneously, and causing their hoofs to descend together, the united impulse broke the ice. We are aware that 'union is strength;' but men could not have done better.”—Morris's Anecdotes. BIRDS. Some birds in tropical climates, with their nests hanging from the branches of trees; pick up and stick a firefly on their nests, to serve the double purpose of lighting up the nests, and keeping away the bats.-Examine where you will, east, west, north, and south, all animated nature is organised for special purposes, with special instruments or organs, for the special duty to be performed; and when that duty is no longer required, the species dies off, and, like the "Dodo" of New Zealand, becomes extinct; or like the an guzties animals whose fossilized remains, as mammoth #ow and then unearthed in the earlier strata. power which impels the physical organization to use struments it has for locomotion-be they the feet in w, the wings on birds, or the fins on fish-is the Negative or Wauf power, in search of the Positive or Give power, and which we call Instiner. SECTION IV. REASON Is the action of the leading characteristic of each species of animal nature, combined in one head or brain. Look over the list of organs in the brain, as detailed under the section Phrenology; consider their powers singly, and then in possible union with any one or two others. Calculate the result, and you have a play of powers-you have Reason. The nearer any animal approaches to the brain formation of man, the more difficult will it be to distinguish the line between reason and instinct. Look at the elephant, for instance; take either a side or front view of his forehead, and you have the main characteristics of intellect or reason, as localized in the brain of man. The perceptives; form, size, weight, colour, order, and number, are clearly developed in the straight, horizontal eyebrows. He has full and bold-individuality, comparison, causality, locality, and time. Compare the vertical lines of his forehead with those of the inclined plane of the cow; and then contrast the mental powers of the two. The cow gazes-browzes-the other tries the weight power of a bridge, before he will go over; he compares instruments, and selects the one best adapted for his purpose; he knows the crush of his foot, and gently with his trunk lifts and puts aside the little child who is in his way; he retains the remembrance of wrongs, and quietly waits for weeks and months, and then coolly inflicts punishment. You have in the elephant reason, so far as he possesses brain organs, akin to those of man. Man is truly at the head of the animal, because he only is possessed of all the organs, possessed by other animals in parts. The possession of all these qualities, makes him a judge and regulator of those powers in animals; as they feel he is possessed of energies superior to them; and as he provides himself with guards, and aggressive instruments to defend or assail; they quail, and submit. This simple solution of what reason is, may take some by surprise; but an attentive SECTION IV. REASON Is the action of the leading characteristic of each species of animal nature, combined in one head or brain. Look over the list of organs in the brain, as detailed under the section Phrenology; consider their powers singly, and then in possible union with any one or two others. Calculate the result, and you have a play of powers-you have Reason. The nearer any animal approaches to the brain formation of man, the more difficult will it be to distinguish the line between reason and instinct. Look at the elephant, for instance; take either a side or front view of his forehead, and you have the main characteristics of intellect or reason, as localized in the brain of man. The perceptives; form, size, weight, colour, order, and number, are clearly developed in the straight, horizontal eyebrows. He has full and bold-individuality, comparison, causality, locality, and time. Compare the vertical lines of his forehead with those of the inclined plane of the cow; and then contrast the mental powers of the two. The cow gazes-browzes-the other tries the weight power of a bridge, before he will go over; he compares instruments, and selects the one best adapted for his purpose; he knows the crush of his foot, and gently with his trunk lifts and puts aside the little child who is in his way; he retains the remembrance of wrongs, and quietly waits for weeks and months, and then coolly inflicts punishment. You have in the elephant reason, so far as he possesses brain organs, akin to those of man. Man is truly at the head of the animal, because he only is possessed of all the organs, possessed by other animals in parts. The possession of all these qualities, makes him a judge and regulator of those powers in animals; as they feel he is possessed of energies superior to them; and as he provides himself with guards, and aggressive instruments to defend or assail; they quail, and submit. This simple solution of what reason is, may take some by surprise; but an attentive |