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and mental faculties quite as much as they do in 

 colour, size, and shape. It is commonly supposed 

 that the mental and temperamental variety existing 

 among individual men does not exist among indi- 

 vidual birds, quadrupeds, insects, etc. But a little 

 observation or reflection ought to be enough to 

 convince anyone that such a supposition belongs 

 to that batch of pre-Darwinian mistakes presented 

 to us by an over-generous past. We are not ac- 

 quainted with the inhabitants of our fields and 

 barn-yards. We are almost as ignorant of the 

 mental life and personality of these door-yard 

 neighbours and friends of ours as we would be if 

 they were the inhabitants of another continent. 

 That is why our obtuse minds lump them together 

 so indiscriminately we do not know anything 

 about them. We never take the trouble, or think 

 it worth while, to get acquainted with them, 

 much less to study and know them. We have 

 grown up in the falsehood that they are altogether 

 different from what we are, and that it is really 

 not worth while to bother our gigantic heads 

 about them, except to use them when it comes 

 handy, or kick them to one side, or execute them, 

 when they get in the way. Everybody else looks 

 at the matter in about the same way, so we just 

 let it go at that. 



There is a sameness about foreigners and other 

 classes of human beings with whom we are but 

 slightly, or not at all, acquainted, until we come 

 to know them and can discriminate one from 

 another. I remember once asking my sister, ij 



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