ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE 
PARE #5 
ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE, AND HOW TO 
SLUDY TE. 
Is there any sane human being who is uninfluenced 
by the advent of springtime? Bright skies and 
balmy air have no doubt much to do with that heigh- 
tened good-feeling which we experience, but do they 
explain the whole change in our being at that time ? 
The budding trees and the springing grass have no 
small share in the happy effect, but even yet the 
analysis is far from complete. With no insects on the 
wing, no birds in the trees, no squirrels frisking among 
the boughs—would spring be spring? Are we not also 
influenced by the effect of the great contrasted change 
in our fellow-men ? 
The truth is, that no normal person is utterly in- 
different to the world of life about him. But when 
squirrels frisk and birds carol, why is it that we regard 
them differently from mere mechanisms worked by a 
string ? When we cage the bird or the squirrel, and 
they become tame, why do we apply such terms as, 
“dear little fellow,” “sweet pet,” etc? Why does the 
* An Address delivered to pupils of the Bishop’s College 
School, Lennoxville, October 1896. 
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