Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1912 — Life Instinct [ARTICLE]

Life Instinct

“When the vernal sun is warming the earth, and April is spreading up the Bibping world with resurrection, by what magic is the transformation wrought? In the dim nether glooms of the deep sea all the fin people have received the summons; the unrest has taken hold of them, the fever of migration; and the myriad hosts from 1 the green Floridian water and azure Carib swiftly they come, through the soundless, trackless spaces under the broken whitish day, up to the cool! fresh rivers and pools of the north. How did they know the date? By instinct? But what is that? The com*: muni cation came to them inexpHcltly As it comes to us, the unuttered wend, the presage, the portent. And their brothers the birds, too; they come flying northward through the night. To them, too, the message must have gone abroad To say that the word went forth among them is to use the. simplest and most elementary imaginery” : i ; '