164 Compared with, Animal Mind. 



development from the brute s, differing from it 

 only in degree, is strengthened by Darwin s com 

 parison of the two, as manifested in all the forms 

 of intelligence from blind sensation np to self- 

 conscious reason. In the instincts of self-preser 

 vation, sexual love, and mother-love, man and 

 beast do not differ. And since both have the 

 same organs of sense, they agree in sensuous per 

 ception. Like man, too, the lower animals feel 

 pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. They 

 experience, also, the same emotions. With them, 

 as with us, terror causes the muscles to tremble, 

 the heart to palpitate, and the hair to stand on 

 end. Courage and timidity we may see in our 

 dogs, good and bad tempers in our horses, rage 

 and revenge in monkeys and other animals. A 

 dog may be as jealous as his mistress, and as fond 

 of praise as the urchin she sends to school. 

 African monkeys have been known to die of 

 grief for the loss of their young. 



Great as the animal capacity for emotion there 

 fore is, it does not, however, exceed the concomi 

 tant intellectual power. All animals feel wonder, 

 and many exhibit curiosity. Darwin gives an 

 amusing account of the mental struggle which 

 monkeys in the Zoological Gardens underwent, be 

 tween their instinctive dread of snakes and their 



