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SAVAGE SURVIVALS 



foretell death or some other calamity to the house- 

 hold. People who account for this instinct in this 

 way are themselves showing a survival of the past 

 — a survival of pre-scientific times \vhen men 

 everywhere interpreted things by signs and omens. 

 A few hundred years ago there was no such thing 



"THE CALL OF THE WILD" 



as chemistry or physics or science generally, such 

 as we know today. Such a thing as natural law 

 operating everyw^here was not dreamed of. In 

 those times men accounted for things by signs and 

 dreams and omens. And a good deal of this old, 

 pre-scientific way of thinking still survives in all 

 higher peoples. 



5. Wild Survivals in Cats. 



The domesticated cat is from the wild cat. And, 

 if you will watch cats about your homes, you will 



