sion be purely imaginary or 

 correspond with a reality, it does 

 not appear that we feel in these 

 transformations the same unfail- 

 ing and preventing good will, the 

 same sagacious and exclusive 

 love. For the rest, it is quite 

 possible that the dog, or rather 

 the inaccessible genius of his race, 

 troubles scarcely at all about us 

 and that we have merely known 

 how to make use of various apti- 

 tudes offered by the abundant 

 chances of life. It matters not: 

 as we know nothing of the sub- 



