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curiosity to peep into a paper bag containing one, 

 which he placed among them. Monkeys have 

 also the faculty of imitation to a wonderful de 

 gree. And attention, the indispensable condition 

 of all intellectual progress, is conspicuous in any 

 animal waiting for its prey. Memory, too, they 

 share with us. After an absence of five years 

 and two days, Darwin s dog followed and obeyed 

 him exactly as if he had &quot; parted with him only 

 half an hour before.&quot; The power of imagination 

 is evidenced by the sounds and movements of ani 

 mals during their dreams. And of the highest 

 faculty of the human mind Darwin says, &quot; only 

 a few persons now dispute that animals possess 

 some power of reasoning.&quot; For example, the 

 Vienna bear that deliberately made with his paw 

 a current in some water, which was close to the 

 bars of his cage, for the purpose of drawing a 

 piece of floating bread within his reach, must 

 have performed the same inductive reasoning as 

 the lowest savage or the highest scientist. 



If it is said, in reply, that man alone is capa 

 ble of progressive improvement, this must be pro 

 nounced doubtful in face of the fact that old ani 

 mals are harder to catch than young ones ; that 

 birds in the course of a very few years cease to kill 

 themselves by flying against new telegraph-lines ; 



