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A lion and a lamb were confined in the same cage, and it could 

 plainly be observed how the lion frequently and affectionately 

 paid its devotion to his little friend, which took all these demon- 

 strations calmly and well contended, as if it were treated by his 

 mother. 



Concluding from the nature of these alliances, manifested 

 in the last two cases, it is apparent that the carnivorous instincts 

 or impulses must have lost much of its objectivity and intensity 

 on account of the sufficiently supplied food which they received 

 in their confinement and which did substitute for the prey which 

 they had to hunt for when living in the forest and wilderness. 



The pursue of prey implies a certain feeling of charm, which 

 logically increases and intensifies the brute aspirations, and which 

 also becomes more intensified by the scarcity of prey; naturally, 

 this tendency exaggerated in the feline family merely into brute 

 lust and bloodthirst, though more easier in the canine family. 



Now, in their confinement, these animals, the lion and the 

 fox, had not the opportunity which would stimulate their car- 

 nivorous and brute tendencies and, naturally, to indulge any 

 further in such transactions, they would render no charm and 

 stimulations to brute manifestations, because their appetites 

 were satisfied by the rational treatment they received by their 

 respective masters. Hence, they subjected and yielded to the 

 feelings of easiness, the same as all animals, after being satisfied, 

 generally indulge in repose and idleness. 



Moreover, it is owing to the laws of psychology that all 

 organic beings subjectively tend to obtain the presence of another 

 being in order to confer and to exchange their feelings and 

 motives, respectively, to indulge in the reflexion of their individu- 

 ality. This is a tendency to form a sympathetic union or friend- 

 ship. The aspiration is becoming, in cases of confinement, nat- 

 urally more determined and affectionate; this is especially the 

 case where such confined beings are strictly excluded from the 

 outer world. 



Thus so allied individuals can be representatives of the 

 extremest organic orders and still they are susceptible to form 

 a sympathetical union, which really will answer the question of 

 mutual welfare of their respective ideal existence. The lone 

 man prisoner, as history relates, may form a close friendship 



