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any man's head. Besides, you cannot seriously
think that every little chicken that is hatched
has to rummage through all possible
theories until it lights upon the good idea of
picking up something and eating it. On the
contrary, you think the chicken has an
innate idea of doing this; that is to say,
that it can think of this, but has no
faculty of thinking anything else. The
chicken you say pecks by instinct.
But if you are going to think every
poor chicken endowed with an innate tendency
toward a positive truth, why should you think
that to man alone this gift is denied?
If you carefully consider with an unbiassed mind all the circumstances