tinguish so nice a difference, which substantially 

 proves that reason is a higher and nobler power — a 

 sublime inspiration of thought which is necessarily 

 foreign to his limited instinct, however strongly it 

 may be developed through training and kindness. 



ANOTHER TEST OF REASON. 



Again, if a horse were looking over a wall and a 

 man presented a gun at him from the opposite side, 

 he would probably do one of two things: — either he 

 would prick his ears and stare the danger in the face, 

 or he would gallop round in a series of small circles — 

 but neither course could be considered a safe or 

 reasonable means of escape from the threatened 

 danger. In both cases the gun would cover him 

 just the same, whereas, if he possessed an intelligent 

 thinking reason, in all likelihood he would drop down 

 behind the wall, as ninety-nine men in every hundred 

 would, allowing one per cent, for imbecility, and thus 

 be completely screened from the range of fire. 



INTELLICxENCE OF THE HORSE. 



In '' Animal Intelligence," the late Mr G. J. 

 Romanes, F.R.S., affirms that horses do not possess 

 the highest instinct among herbivorous animals, while 

 many of the larger carnivorous animals are endowed 

 with much more acutely strung instincts. 



** The horse," he says, " is not so intelligent an 

 animal as any of the larger carnivora, "while, among 

 herbivorous quadrupeds, his sagacity is greatly ex- 



