He went so far as to express it as his decided conviction that by far the greater part of the propensities which are generally supposed to be instinctive are not implanted in animals by Nature, but are the results of long experience acquired and accumulated... The Intellectual Observer - Page 4471863Full view - About this book
| Thomas Bell - 1837 - 554 pages
...generally supposed to be instinctive, are not implanted in animals by nature, but that they are the result of long experience, acquired and accumulated...course of time to assume the character of instinct." These opinions, of the truth of which I have long felt persuaded, come with redoubled effect from one... | |
| James Hamilton Fennell - 1841 - 610 pages
...generally supposed to be instinctive, are not implanted in animals by nature, but that they are the result of long experience, acquired and accumulated...course of time, to assume the character of instinct. I cannot but think that part of what is called the national character of the different varieties of... | |
| Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1862 - 296 pages
...generally supposed to be instinctive are not implanted in animals by nature, but that they are the result of long experience, acquired and accumulated...course of time to assume the character of instinct." We have already treated of pointers, setters, spaniels, and retrievers, and therefore, upon the present... | |
| Veterinary review and stockowners' journal - 1863 - 794 pages
...generally supposed to be instinctive are not implanted in animals by nature, but that they are the result of long experience, acquired and accumulated...breeder will prefer cleverness before beauty, and in cho<Jsing a sir? ask first about his performances, in the full expectation of a progeny capable of... | |
| 1863 - 796 pages
...generally supposed to be instinctive are not implanted in animals by nature, but that they are the result of long experience, acquired and accumulated...altogether, we must tacitly consent to it whenever it is onr object to produce a breed of animals required for any active purpose ; and in dogs especially the... | |
| 1866 - 476 pages
...generally supiosed to he instinctive, are not implanted in he animal by nature, but that they are the result of long experience, acquired and accumulated...course of time to assume the character of instinct.'' It will thus be seen that the notions of Sir John Sebright on instinct are not very different from... | |
| 1869 - 392 pages
...that are generally supposed to be instinctive, are not implanted in animals by nature, but are the result of long experience, acquired and accumulated through many generations, so as in course of time to assume the character of instinct. 298. How may dogs be taught to distinguish playing... | |
| 980 pages
...generally supposed to be instinctive are not implanted in animals by nature, but that they are the result of long experience, acquired and accumulated...course of time to assume the character of instinct. " In former numbers we have treated of pointers, setters, spaniels, and retrievers, and therefore upon... | |
| 1873 - 966 pages
...generally supposed to be instinctive, are not implanted in animals by Nature, but that they are the result of long experience, acquired and accumulated...course of time, to assume the character of instinct." And the latter, in his observations on the Economy of Bees, expresses the opinion that Hereditary Instincts... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1874 - 774 pages
...are generally supposed to be instinctive, are not implanted in animals by Nature, but are the results of long experience, acquired and accumulated through...generations, so as, in the course of time, to assume the characters of instinct." And in the Fourth and Fifth Editions of his " Human Physiology," published... | |
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