bilities, and their tempers are as different as our own, and 

 they are known to depend upon precisely the same causes. 

 An injury of the brain produces intellectual suspension in the 

 dog as well as in man, and mental excitement in either pro- 

 duces madness, quickness of circulation, or death. Insanity 

 (when not hydrophobia, which is a comparatively rare disease,) 

 is cured in man and the inferior animals by the same means, 

 or, when not cured, is often alleviated. In both, the temper 

 and mental disposition of the parent are transmitted to the 

 offspring, as regularly as form of body, or cast of countenance, 

 or inherent disease. Hence, every jockey on the turf knows 

 how important to a horse is a good pedigree. 



" But 'why/ it may be asked, ' do you waste so many words 

 on this subject? why not submit the whole question to a matter- 

 of-fact experiment ?' 'Take a brute out of his instinct/ as 

 Addison terms it, place him in a position totally unnatural to 

 him, and which lus Creator never intended him to occupy, and 

 see how he will act. If instinct be his only guide, he can do 

 nothing ; if he possess any amount of reasoning faculties, he 

 wfll show it by adapting himself to the circumstances. The 

 experiment has often been tried, the result is before the world. 

 A cat has been placed within the receiver of an air-pump — a 

 place, it should be observed, where no animal was ever put 

 by the Almighty, and which only has an existence by artificial 

 means — and after many efforts she succeeded in discovering 

 the cause of her inconvenience. To remedy it was the work 

 of a moment ; she placed her foot upon the opening through 

 which the air escaped, and the experiment was at an end. 

 The same animal, when placed in a bowl upon water, exhibits 

 an amount of dexterity for which we seldom give her credit, 

 in adapting her positions so as to keep the bowl fairly afloat. 

 The case of bees is hardly less singular. When taken from 

 England to the West Indies, they invariably lay up a stock of 

 honey in the summer; but as they ascertain during the 

 first season that flowers can be had during all the year, they 



