ued, and vital contact with man?

Mr. Burroughs says that "instinct suffices for the animals," that "they
get along very well without reason." But I say, what all the poor
nature-fakers will say, that Rollo reasoned. He was born into the world
a bundle of instincts and a pinch of brain-stuff, all wrapped around in a
framework of bone, meat, and hide. As he adjusted to his environment he
gained experiences. He remembered these experiences. He learned that he
mustn't chase the cat, kill chickens, nor bite little girls' dresses. He
learned that little boys had little boy playmates. He learned that men
came into back yards. He learned that the animal man, on meeting with
his own kind, was given to verbal and facial greeting. He learned that
when a boy greeted a playmate he did it differently from the way he
greeted a man. All these he learned and remembered. They were so many
observations--so many propositions, if you please. Now, what went on
behind those brown eyes of his, inside that pinch of brain-stuff, when I
turned suddenly to the door and greeted an imaginary person outside?
Instantly, out of the thousands of observations stored in his brain, came
to the front of his consciousness the particular observations connected
with this particular situation. Next, he established a relation between
these observations. This relation was his conclusion, achieved, as every
psychologist will agree, by a definite cell-action of his grey matter.
From the fact that his master turned suddenly toward the door, and from
the fact that his master's voice, facial expression, and whole demeanour
expressed surprise and delight, he concluded that a friend was outside.
He established a relation between various things, and the act of
establishing relations between things is an act of reason--of rudimentary
reason, granted, but none the less of reason.

Of course Rollo was fooled. But that is no call for us to throw chests
about it. How often has every last one of us been fooled in precisely
similar fashion by another who turned and suddenly addressed an imaginary
intruder? Here is a case in point that occurred in the West. A robber
had held up a railroad train. He stood in the aisle between the seats,
his revolver presented at the head of the conductor, who stood facing
him. The conductor was at his mercy.

But the conductor suddenly looked over the robber's shoulder, at the same
time saying aloud to an imaginary person st