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that the sensitive faculties of the greyhound are possessed by 

 the man, just as are his digestive and locomotive faculties. 

 No anatomist denies that man's bodily structure closely 

 resembles the brutes', and I, at least, have been forward in 

 asserting it. I maintain, however, that though man and dog 

 agree in exhibiting the phenomena of feeling, they differ 

 altogether as to the phenomena of thinking, of which man 

 alone gives any evidence. 



Professor Huxley asks a singular question. He says, 

 ' What is the value of the evidence which leads one to believe 

 that one's fellow-man feels ? The only evidence in this argu- 

 ment of analogy is the similarity of his structure and of his 

 actions to one's own.' Surely it is not by similarity of actions 

 in any ordinary sense of the word, but by language that men 

 are placed in communication with one another, and that the 

 rational intellect of each perceives the rationality and sensi- 

 bility of his fellow-man. 



Professor Huxley asserts that by 'a combination of 

 sensible images ' the Quarterly Reviewer must mean more 

 than his words imply, or otherwise a greyhound would not 

 run after a hare. Certainly the Reviewer could hardly have 

 suspected that any one would take him to mean that brutes 

 are destitute of appetites and emotions. The conjunction, 

 however, of these appetites and emotions with sensible images 

 in complex associations is certainly amply sufficient to 

 explain all that is exhibited by dogs in * the noble art of 

 coursing,' and this Professor Huxley must allow if, as I 

 suspect, he wo'uld attribute nothing essentially higher to the 

 gamekeeper himself 



On the question concerning morality I have, I conceive, 

 some reason to complain of Professor Huxley's treatment of 

 my observations. From the remarks which he has again and 

 again made, it is evident to whom he attributes the article in 

 the Quarterly Review. Nevertheless, he, in the first place 



