ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE 



PART I. 



ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE, AND HOW TO 

 STUDY IT * 



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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