’Tis a Kind of a _School Question_ that we find started in This Fable,
upon the Subject of Reason and Instinct: And whether This Deliberative
Proceeding of the _Crow_ was not rather a _Logical_ Agitation of the
Matter, then the Bare _Analogy_, as we call it, of a Simple Impulse. It
will be Objected, that we are not to Draw Conclusions from the Fictions
of a Case, but whoever Consults his Experience, may satisfie Himself in
many Instances that come up to This Supposition. We are also taught, that
what we cannot Compass Directly, by the Force of Natural Faculties, may
be brought to pass many Times by Art and Invention.