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feeling is the same in man as in them, although, of course, 

 the mode of manifesting it is different. We have shown the 

 fallacy of the theory that parental love is life-enduring in 

 man and very brief among the animals, and have seen that, 

 in proportion to the duration of life, it is quite as brief 

 among the savages as among the animals. And, again, we 

 have seen where it has been lost and then restored, and also 

 where it was never lost ; where in animals, as in man, it has 

 caused complete abnegation of self, the parents living for 

 their children, and not for themselves, and where it has given 

 strength to the weak and courage to the timid. Even the 

 very fishes have been shown to be amenable to the same 

 influences as man, and could we have carried our illustrations 

 still lower down the scale we would have found the same 

 influences existing among much humbler forms of animal 

 existences. In conclusion, there is no resisting the fact that 

 parental love, one of the highest and holiest feelings of 

 which a loving and immortal soul can be capable, is shared 

 equally by man and beast, according to their respective 

 capacities. 



