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August in the early spring of that southern country, some 

 days after all the flocks had taken their departure to the 

 south, he was out riding, and saw at a distance before him 

 on the plain a pair of geese. They were male and female 

 — a white and a brown bird. Their movements attracted 

 his attention and he rode to them. The female was walking 

 steadily on in a southerly direction, while the male, greatly 

 excited, and calling loudly from time to time, walked at 

 a distance ahead, and constantly turned back to see and 

 call to his mate, and at intervals of a few minutes he would 

 rise up and fly, screaming, to a distance of some hundreds 

 of yards ; then finding that he had not been followed he would 

 return and alight at a distance of forty or fifty yards in 

 advance of the other bird, and begin walking on as before. 

 The female had one wing broken, and, unable to fly, had set 

 out on her long journey to the Magellanic Islands on her 

 feet; and her mate, though called to by that mysterious 

 imperative voice in his breast, yet would not forsake her; 

 but flying a little distance to show her the way, and return- 

 ing again and again, and calling to her with his wildest 

 and most piercing cries, urged her still to spread her wings 

 and fly with him to their distant home. 



'^ And on that sad, anxious way they would journey on 

 to the inevitable end, when a pair or family of carrion 

 eagles would spy them from a great distance — the two 

 travellers left far behind by their fellows, one flying, the 

 other walking; and the first would be left to continue the 

 journey alone" (Birds and Man. 2nd Ed., 1915, p. 214). 

 The realm of animal life is crowded with this sort of thing. 



(Ill) Also to be rejected is subjective idealism, which 

 is the extreme antithesis of opiphonomenalism, and finds 

 nothing real but the routine of personal conscious experience. 



