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MANUSCRIPT OF DARWIN'S "DESCENT OF MAN" 



fear & something very like modesty, 

 when begging too often for food. Some 

 dogs and other animals as horses easily 

 turn sulky; some are good-tempered, 

 others ill-tempered. A great dog scorns 

 the snarling of a little dog. Several 

 obserA'ers have stated that mouKeys 

 certainly hate being laughed at. They 

 will also make for themselves imagin- 

 ary offenses; thus I saw a baboon in 

 the Zoological Gardens who always got 

 into a furious passion, when his keeper 

 took out a letter or book and read it 

 aloud to him; on one occasion in his 

 rage he bit his own leg till the blood 

 Howed. 



We will now turn to the more intel- 

 lectual emotions & faculties, which are 

 very important as the almost necessary 

 steps to the development of the higher 

 mental powers. Animals manifestly 

 enjoy excitement, & suffer from ennui, 

 as may be seen with dogs & accord- 

 ing to Rengger with monkeys. All 

 animals plainly feel Wonder; & may 

 exhibit Curiosity, as is sometimes 

 proved to their cost by the hunter play- 

 ing antics and thus attracting them. 



I There can, I think, be no doubt that 

 a dog feels shame, as distinct from fear, 

 and something very like modesty when 

 begging too often for food. A great dog 

 scorns the snarling of a little dog, and 

 this may be called magnanimity. Sev- 

 eral observers have stated that monkeys 

 certainly dislike being laughed at; and 

 they sometimes invent imaginary of- 

 fences. In the Zoological Gardens I 

 saw a baboon who always got into a 

 furious rage when his keeper took out 

 a letter or book and read it aloud to 

 him; and his rage was so violent that, 

 as I witnessed on one occasion, he bit 

 his own leg till the blood flowed. 



We will now turn to the more intel- 

 lectual emotions and faculties, which 

 are very important, as forming the 

 basis for the development of the higher 

 mental powers. Animals manifestly 

 enjoy excitement and suflFer from ennui, 

 as may be seen with dogs, and, accord- 

 ing to Rengger, with monkeys. All ani- 

 mals feel Wonder, and may exhibit 

 Curiosity. They sometimes suffer from 

 this latter quality, as when the hunter 

 plays antics and thus attracts them; 



