CONTENTS 

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Again Birds and Their Young Hunted 

 Creatures The Worm and the Hook Cattle 

 and the Slaughterhouse The Horse's Limi- 

 tations Contrast Between Dog and Cat 

 Animal Insensibility. 



V. SOME POPULAR ERRORS 77 



Fairy Stories Small Birds and the Cuckoo 

 " God's Cock and Hen "Naturalist Story- 

 tellers Dog and Boy Cleverness of Dogs 

 "The Cad" and "The Jester " " Tears of 

 Anguish "Prescient Cattle The Working 

 of Old Instinct Misleading " Science "- 

 Brushing Cows Horse and Burning Stable 

 Moaning of Dog Intelligence of a Cock 

 A Dog's " Remorse "Hooked Fish. 



VI. THE RISE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 101 



Why Man Alone Has Knowledge of Pain 

 The Use of Suffering Man Always Finds 

 His Level Summary of the Argument 

 Evidence that Man Alone is Self-Conscious 

 Language Self-Decoration Bower Birds 

 and Motmots The Religious Sense How 

 Consciousness Began Concerted Action 

 Bees Wolves Rooks' " Sentinels "The 

 Human Foot and its Story Rising by Hard- 

 ship Beginning of Concerted Action Self- 

 Restraint and the Moral Sense Stupendous 

 Consequences. 



VII. GOD IN MAN 129 



What is Consciousness? Imperfections of 

 Language " The Likeness of God " - The 

 Unity of Nature Types of Evolution The 

 Birth of a Chicken Story of the Gall Hu- 

 man Progress The Creation Conflicting 

 Critics The Virgin Birth and Incarnation- 

 Science's Limitations. 



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