4 ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE 
himself into comparison with a mere dog. “Is thy 
servant a dog, that he should do this thing ?” 
But Nature is often wiser than her expounders, and 
I venture to assert that it is, in spite of the indignant 
protest of some people, because we are in not a little so 
like dogs that a large part of our life is what it is, and 
I hope before I finish this lecture to be able to convince 
you, or, at all events, to indicate the methods by which 
you may convince yourselves, that Tom Jones was quite 
correct when he believed that his dog’s way of thinking, 
feeling, acting, and being acted upon, are very much like 
his own. 
We all find some people hard to understand, and in 
proportion as that is the case are such persons estranged 
from us, and this is inevitable for the reasons that I am 
trying to set forth, viz.: that community of thought and 
feeling is essential to beget sympathy, interest, etc., and 
when they exist, and in proportion often as they are 
found, do they bind people together. You see these 
principles ilustrated in every school. John takes to 
James because, perhaps, they were at some other school 
together, and found they had common views and in- 
terests, and John finds it hard to get into sympathy with 
Harry, because they seem to have so little in common. 
John likes cricket and Harry lacrosse; John prefers to go 
a-fishing, and Harry to race across country ; John is fond 
of quiet fun, and Harry of the boisterous, rollicking sort 
of amusement, and so one might proceed to illustrate at 
great length. Now and then, however, we meet a person 
who seems with extraordinary ease to be able to enter 
into the frame of mind and feeling of a large number of 
persons. Such people have, we say, wide sympathies, 
and when rendered intelligent by education they take 
broad views of things, and if possessed of vigorous in- 
tellect and strong will, they are likely to become leaders 
in the community. Possibly they may become dis- 
