ivate reasons, he might not have wished
to acknowledge, or point out to the world by the signal bequest of
his will? All that Margrave ever said of himself and the source of his
wealth confirmed this belief. He frankly proclaimed himself a natural
son, enriched by a father whose name he knew not nor cared to know."

"It is true. And Margrave quitted Paris for the East. When?"

"I can tell you the date within a day or two, for his flight preceded
mine by a week; and, happily, all Paris was so busy in talking of it,
that I slipped away without notice."

And the Prussian then named a date which it thrilled me to hear, for
it was in that very month, and about that very day, that the Luminous
Shadow had stood within my threshold.

The young count now struck off into other subjects of talk: nothing more
was said of Margrave. An hour or two afterwards he went on his way, and
I remained long gazing musingly on the embers of the dying glow on my
hearth.

(1) "Are intelligence and instinct, thus differing in their relative
proportion in man as compared with all other animals, yet the same in
kind and manner of operation in both? To this question we must give
at once an affirmative answer. The expression of Cuvier, regarding the
faculty of reasoning in lower animals, 'Leur intelligence execute des
operations du meme genre,' is true in its full sense. We can in no
manner define reason so as to exclude acts which are at every moment
present to our observation, and which we find in many instances to
contravene the natural instincts of the species. The demeanour and acts
of the dog in reference to his master, or the various uses to which
he is put by man, are as strictly logical as those we witness in the
ordinary transactions of life."--Sir Henry Holland, chapters on "Mental
Physiology," p. 220.

The whole of the chapter on Instincts and Habits in this work should
be read in connection with the passage just quoted. The work itself, at
once cautious and suggestive, is not one of the least obligations which
philosophy and religion alike owe to the lucubrations of English medical
men.

(2) Abercrombie's Intellectual Powers, p. 26. (15th Edition.)

(3) OEuvres de Descartes, vol. x. p. 178, et seq. (Cousin's Edition.)

(4) M. Tissot the distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Dijon, in his
recent work, "La Vie dans l'Homme," p. 255, gives a long and illustrious
list of philosophers who assign a rational soul (ame) to the inferi