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live. That things are not created as we see them, but they 

 only appear to us as we think we see them. Following along 

 this line of argument, does it not seem possible, that, as 

 the quality of mere human intellect becomes merged in the 

 divine aspirations of the soul, and the qualities of mind 

 are thus purified and magnified, the results of this will be 

 once more the perception of things as they really are, and 

 have always been, — namely, perfect and indestructible? 

 Now to come back to the mentality of the dog, and, indeed, 

 to all animals which are using this impulse of way-finding, 

 we observe that they are led to use it when under some 

 sort of strong emotion. I have shown, that in the dog, 

 I have found that of love, to be the motive power most 

 successful in obtaining good results. In other animals, 

 the idea of preservation of the species, causing individual 

 animals, or whole colonies, to seek warmer climes, or safer 

 rearing grounds. In fact, the same indomitable instinct, 

 which makes the good soldier, namely, the preservation of 

 his country, home, and family. 



Once a child fell into the Serpentine. Someone rushed 

 to the rescue, and a great crowd gathered round the bank. 

 At that moment, a little, old, grey-haired woman, with 

 fiercely set face, hurled herself through the crowd. Power- 

 ful men were dashed aside, as though they were nine-pins, 

 and in a few seconds she had cleared a path for herself 

 through the dense mass of people, impelled by strength she 

 had been quite unconscious of, until called out under 

 stress of this great emotion — love, for she was the child's 

 grandmother. 



It would therefore seem, that our animals, under stress of 

 a definite necessity, become conscious of certain phenomena 

 of which they make use. That we ourselves do not realize 

 what these are, is no argument that they are not there, 



