The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1929-08-08
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any reasoning possibly can be. The
animals know many things necessary
to their happiness and survival; they
could not comprehend our reasoning
no matter how logical it might be, and
with so accurate knowledge, it would
be superfluous, In the fields of their
instructive excellence.
Intuition is but another name for
higher instinct.
There are primary instincts inherent
in the mental organism even of ami
mails, and secondary instincts which
have their origin in the intelligence
of which the brain is the organ.
Says Mr. Hudson: Instinct or In
tuition is the faculty possessed by
each sentient being, in proportion to
its development and in harmony with
its environment, to perceive or appre-
bend, antecedent to and independently
of reason, experience, or instruction,
those laws of nature which pertain to
the well being of the individual and OF
the species to which it belongs. The
subjective mind of man is identical
with the instructive intelligence of ami
mails, differing only in degree of deveh
opment and completely of organism"
Ex-Surgeon-Genera Hammond to-
tally eliminated the brains of several
animals and found that all instructive
functions were performed just as be-
fore. Babes have been born without
cranial brains, and have performed all
the instructive functions. These seems
to be good basis for LaMark's theory
that the millions of cells in our bodies
are built, the operations of our physi.
cal organs continued, and all conse-
quent physical changes and improve
ments in the body made, as the re.
suit of internal impulses, all of which
point to perfect wisdom-and hence to
perfect source OF that wisdom.
Locke called attention to internal
facts; Bacon and Newton to external
facts. Most philosophy has been one
sided.
We can not help believing that to
insist that we can not be sure there
is any such thing as matter is as fool
ish as to believe that an idea can be
grasped by muscular power, the
beauty of a lily sensed by the power
Of touch, or an emotion or writing OF
outraged conscience detected by the
sense of scent
Materialistic philosophy is equally
weak. Materialism in the physical SCI
ences has greatly influenced all philo-
SOpuy, mOSL particularly lndI Oh Tue
seventeenth century. Investigators
fixed their attention so exclusively on
resemblances, that they neglected the
exceptions.
Men like Darwin and Huxley have
not always been careful to discrim-
mate between the facts which sustain
theory, and those which do not
By accepting the opinion and then
seeking to explain the facts, we often
learn that there is something wrong
with the reasoning, and that even
facts are sometimes prostituted to IL
legitimate uses.
All systems are obliged to assume
some things, but these assumptions
can not logically exist, unless they are
in accord with all the known facts.
The great educator, Hopkins, said:
mo man has a right to construct a
metaphysical balance, in which he
shall place an hypothesis of his own,
as a counterpoise for one particle OF
valid evidence"
Says Thomson Jay Hudson: "The
most that can be said of any scientific
hypothesis is, that whether true in the
abstract or not, every thing happens
just as though it were true"
Following this principle and method,
ii does not take long to conclude that
true Realism can explain the facts
more adequately than can Atheism