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to which impulse should be followed ; and satisfaction, 

 dissatisfaction, or even misery would be felt, as past im- 

 pressions were compared during their incessant passage 

 through the mind. In this case an inward monitor would 

 tell the animal that it would have been better to have 

 followed the one impulse rather than the other. The one 

 course ought to have been followed, and the other ought 

 not ; the one would have been right and the other wrong. 



HUMAN SYMPATHY AMONG ANIMALS. 



Who can say what cows feel when they sur- 

 round and stare intently on a dying or dead 

 companion ? Apparently, however, as Houzeau remarks, 

 they feel no pity. That animals sometimes are far from 

 feeling any sympathy is too certain ; for they will expel a 

 wounded animal from the herd, or gore or worry it to 

 death. This is almost the blackest fact in natural history, 

 unless, indeed, the explanation which has been suggested 

 is true, that their instinct or reason leads them to expel 

 an injured companion, lest beasts of prey, including 

 man, should be tempted to follow the troop. In this case 

 their conduct is not much worse than that of the North 

 American Indians, who leave their feeble comrades to 

 perish on the plains ; or the Feejeeans, who, when their 

 parents get old, or fall ill, bury them alive. 



p Several years ago a keeper at the Zoological 



Gardens showed me some deep and scarcely 

 healed wounds on the nape of his own neck, inflicted on 

 him, while kneeling on the floor, by a fierce baboon. The 

 little American monkey, who was a warm friend of this 

 keeper, lived in the same large compartment, and was 

 dreadfully afraid of the great baboon. Nevertheless, as 



