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attaching to it. The dog had never seen a wolf, and 

 we can only explain this alarm by the hereditary trans- 

 mission of certain sentiments, coupled with a certain 

 perception of the sense of smell " (" Heredity," p. 43). 



I should prefer to say "we can only explain the alarm 

 by supposing that the smell of the wolf's skin" the 

 sense of smell being, as we all know, more powerful to 

 recall the ideas that have been associated with it than 

 any other sense " brought up the ideas with which it 

 had been associated in the dog's mind during many 

 previous existences" he on smelling the wolfs skin 

 remembering all about wolves perfectly well. 



