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experience. Snch a consideration is alone enongh to show 

 that the question needs to be treated with infinitely more 

 care and research than Mr. Darwin has thought worth 

 while to bestow upon it." 



Darwin. " I have to say yet farther," my Lord, " on this 

 subject, that the feeling of religious devotion is a highly 

 complex one, consisting of love, complete submission to an 

 exalted and mysterious superior, a strong sense of de- 

 pendence, fear, reverence, gratitude, hope for the future, 

 and perhaps other elements. No being could experience so 

 complex an emotion, until advanced in his intellectual and 

 moral faculties to at least a moderately high level. Never- 

 theless, we see some distinct approach to this state of mind 

 in the deep love of a dog for his master, associated with 

 complete submission, some fear, and perhaps other feelings. 

 The behaviour of a dog, when returning to his master after 

 an absence, and, as I may add, of a monkey to his beloved 

 keeper, is widely different from that towards their fellows. 

 In the latter case the transports of joy appear to be some- 

 what less, and the sense of equality is shown in every 

 action. Professor Braubach goes so far as to maintain that 

 a dog looks on his master as on a god." (Vol. i. p. 68.) 



Homo. Which would imply, my Lord, that the dog has 

 formed the idea of a god. If Mr. Darwin could show this 

 to be the case, it would afford some help to his argument. 

 But though he quotes this professor's language, and evi- 

 dently would gladly endorse it if he could, he does not 

 venture on the absurdity. Professor Braubach should bring 

 out a dog's catechism, in which, in reply to the question, 

 " Who made you ?" the creature should be taught to reply, 

 " My master ! " 



Lord C. You do not, Mr. Darwin, mention regard for 

 truth, purity, and rectitude, as minglin^ in "the highly 



