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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
131
As
the
use
of
the
natural
sense
of
taste
makes
possible
the
choice
of
nourishment,
and
all
forms
of
life
are
thus
sustained,
the
natural
taste
becomes
an
important
factor
of
their
comfort,
and
upon
this
physical
basis
rests,
perhaps,
the
whole
superstructure
of
ethics.
The
first
idea
of
ownership
is
doubtless
found
in
the
possession
of
food;
and
this
right
of
property
is
protected
by
the
unwritten
laws
of
incipient
life.
The
faculty
of
reason,
which
man
has
arrogated
to
himself,
is
only
limited
by
that
dim
line
which
bounds
the
vital
sphere
and
sheds
its
rays
through
all
the
kingdom
of
life,
from
that
point
where
the
vital
spark
first
lights
the
monad,
through
all
the
labyrinths
of
change,
to
man
in
the
full
pride
of
his
divinity,
standing
upon
the
threshold
of
the
angelic
state.
It
is
not
by
the
exercise
of
reason
that
water
flows
down
hill,
or
that
matter
obeys
the
law
of
gravity;
but
in
the
exercise
of
autonomy,
however
feeble
may
be
the
motive,
reason
guides
the
act.
The
power
of
this
faculty
is
measured
by
the
development
of
others,
and
there
is
no
point
between
the
two
extremes
at
which
reason
intercepts
life.
The
degree
in
which
all
the
powers
of
sense
and
faculty
are
developed
determines
the
horizon
of
the
thing
which
possesses
them.
The
aggregation
of
powers
to
act
constitutes
life;
and
the
aggregation
of
powers
to
guide
the
action
constitutes
reason.
[Sidenote:
ALL
MAMMALS
REASON]
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