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they may have the hereditary instinct of the mother, and be prone 

 to wander from home, they will become, to all intents and purposes, 

 tame cats. Take the young of the wild cat, and from its earliest 

 infancy it will display the savage and ferocious instincts of its 

 wild race. The wild duck, again. You may rear the young from 

 the egg ; up to a certain point they are tame, but let them arrive 

 at maturity, and they at once assume all the habits of the wild 

 bird ; they pair, which tame ducks do not ; they take their regular 

 flights at even ; and, when the breeding season approaches, the 

 migratory instinct seizes them, and they are away to distant climes 

 to bring up a progeny as regardless as themselves of any ties that 

 can bind them to man. This will occur through any number of 

 generations ; you cannot tame a wild duck. Even the pigeon, 

 which in its wild state approximates more nearly than any other 

 bird to the domestic type, is simply untameable. There are records 

 of dovecotes and flocks of tame pigeons from the days of Herodotus. 

 But who ever stocked a dovecote with ring-doves ? I could give you 

 any number of instances, but will mention only one more — the 

 patient ass — that "foal of an oppressed race." AYhat he is you 

 see ; the willing, enduring, ofttimes ill-used slave of man. What is 

 his wild type ? The quagga, zebra, or oneida, swiftest and most un- 

 tameable of brutes. Rarey himself — I was one of his earliest 

 pupils, and witnessed many of his experiments — though he subdued 

 Cruiser and many another horse assumed to be incorrigible, could 

 do nothing with the zebra, whose spirit, after years of confinement 

 in the Zoological Gardens, after being stared out of countenance by 

 thousands, poked with parasols, and tempted with buns, might 

 fairly have been supposed to be broken. After many attempts, 

 Earey gave him up in despair. Who then, I ask, and when, and 

 by what means were these creatures subdued and domesticated, 

 and made subservient to man ? If now, with all means and 

 appliances, with bars and bolts, and cages and wire-netting, and, 

 far more potent, a thorough knowledge of the habits and idiosyn- 

 cracies of the creatures, and the result of patience and kindness, 

 we can do nothing towards taming a single animal, how could they 

 who lived in the olden time efi'ect it ? They could not ! How 

 then was it done ? My answer would be laughed at by the ad- 

 vanced reasoners of the Darwinian school, and would be despised by 

 the majority of the certificated teachers of the present day — it would 

 be something in the spirit, if not in the words, of Dr. Watts : — 



" God has made them so " ! 



With reference to fallacies— It is impossible to read books, and 



