tions, our habits as though the 

 least fraternal of the stars had 

 dropped them but yesterday on 

 our globe. In the boundless in- 

 terval that separates man from 

 all the other creatures, we have 

 succeeded only, by dint of patience, 

 in making them take two or three 

 illusory steps. And, if, to-mor- 

 row, leaving their feelings toward 

 us untouched, nature were to 

 give them the intelligence and the 

 weapons wherewith to conquer 

 us, I confess that I should distrust 

 the hasty vengeance of the horse, 



