DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 79 



water on being surprised, when it is perfectly 

 plain that they do so mechanically rather than 

 from actual fear. 



There are hundreds of such survivals of wild 

 life in the psychologies of domesticated animals. 

 They persist, tho often in a dwindling condi- 

 tion, in accordance with that conservative tend- 

 ency of the universe which in living organisms we 

 call Heredity. 



