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1 imagination ' to elevate them into anything- approaching 

 to the nature of man. Of this he seems to be aware when 

 he asks with a ludicrous sentimentality, ' Who can say what 

 cows feel when they surround and stare intently on a dying 

 or dead companion ? ' Yes, who indeed ? There is nothing 

 novel or scientific in this sort of stuff ; we have heard of 

 dreaming dogs, and reasoning elephants, and arithmetical 

 pigs, and beavers' houses, and the wonderful instincts of 

 bees all our lives, and the common sense of mankind, gentle 

 and simple, has long ago, repudiated their real community 

 with the moral and intellectual nature of man. Does Mr. 

 Darwin hope to overcome the verdict by telling us that : 



If mn were reared under precisely the same conditions as hive -tees, 

 there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the 

 worker-bees, think it a sacred duty to kill their brothers, and mothers 

 would strive to kill their fertile daughters, aud no one would think of 

 interfering ? 



What would be said if any advocate of Revelation 

 resorted to such puerile trifling ? In the case supposed, 

 the creatures would not be men, but bees, and act like 

 other bees. But that bees ever think anything a ' sacred 

 ' duty ' is one of the thousand forms of begging tlie question 

 artfully scattered up and down the book. Curiously 

 enough, the best examples are found, not among the apes, 



