DAR^YIN AND DELUSION. 9 



would ccrtamly pervade the world if the liunmiiizcd 

 ape liad not lost his tail by being tamed and turned 

 into man. 



The dog's tail cannot deceive. '' What stirs the 

 dog ? his ears and tail." No teaching in the world 

 can cloak the expression of his ^^ ears and tail," 

 nor conceal the honest love that really lives within 

 him. His tail will only wag at the approach of 

 those to whom he is attached, or from whom he at 

 the moment receives kindness : if he feels not 

 pleasure, his tail is still. If angered and resolutely 

 prepared for war, he bears it erect and stiff for the 

 brave encounter ; if worsted in fair fight, or 

 stricken with fear, he lowers it and retires ; but if 

 he is a vile-hearted, mean cur, he runs away at 

 once, with his tail, as the expression goes, between 

 his legs. 



There is no doubt that some of the most sagacious 

 dogs, in occasional breeds, as in shepherd's dogs, 

 are to be found without tails ; but that, according 

 to the present theory, may be because they 

 are in more immediate transition to superior 

 things. 



That dogs are gifted with reasoning powers, I 

 mean to prove elsewhere, but for the present 



