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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 wolfs 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. 



