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Classification of the Sci
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and remodels it, so as to convert it from a maxim of procedure into a positive dogma. The existence of natural classification has been considered above so far as there is room here to consider it. To those who repeat that the mind has no faculties, we may reply: We have said nothing about the mind: we have not used the word; so that it is open to you to employ it in such a sense that it shall be true that the mind has no faculties, if there be any such sense; and it will not concern us at all. If you mean to say that animals have not a plurality of instincts, that question can be discussed provided it can be defined so as [to] be a question of observable fact. Take ants. Their general mode of life is much like that of termites and of bees, and is utterly unlike those of squids, monkeys, or even of spiders. But the type of civilization among different kinds of ants, though identical in a general way, presents most striking varieties. Some ants store

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