MAN AND OTHEE ANIMALS 



Thus, the mind of an animal may be likened to 

 an ordinary telegraph-office under an ordinary 

 telegraph-master, whose conduct is regulated by 

 routine and rule, every message received being 

 dealt with promptly in the ordinary course of 

 business. 



The human mind, on the other hand, resem- 

 bles a more important telegraph office of which a 

 superior, responsible official has supreme charge. 

 There is still the ordinary telegraph-master at- 

 tending to the routine work, so that to outward 

 seeming the receipt and dispatch of messages 

 scarcely differs from the ordinary system ; but the 

 responsible official all the while exercises the power 

 of deciding that a certain class of message shall be 

 treated in a certain way, that one shall be given 

 preference and another put in the background. 



In the former class of office everything goes 

 on smoothly and automatically, according to rule, 

 and no responsibility troubles anyone. In the 

 latter the responsible officials reaps all the credit 

 or the blame of success or failure. His is the 

 burden of responsibility and his the ambition of 

 improvement. He personally feels the consequences 

 of everything which happens. 



The parallel is not, of course, exact, because 

 you cannot imagine an office conducted by human 

 beings so automatically as to eliminate the ele- 



