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complex feeling of religious devotion," of which yon speak. 

 Yet, would not these elements also have a place in it ? 



Homo. In page 182, my Lord, Mr. Darwin speaks of 

 "the highest form of religion the grand idea of God 

 hating sin and loving righteousness." For this idea he is 

 of course indebted to the book he so persistently ignores in 

 discussing this question. I presume he omitted this idea 

 in the description he has just given of religious devotion, 

 because he intended to exhibit the dog as showing " some 

 distant approach " to a religious state of mind, and knew 

 that he would search in vain, in any dog, for the faintest 

 shadow of hatred to sin and love to righteousness. 



Lord C. To bring in this idea here would certainly 

 encumber his argument. Nevertheless, it must be brought 

 in, if the whole case is to be before us. Do you object, 

 Homo, to what Mr. Darwin has just said regarding the 

 dog his "deep love for his master, associated with com- 

 plete submission, some fear, and perhaps other feelings ? " 



Homo. By no means, my Lord ; the dog is a most noble 

 animal, and Mr. Darwin, I think, has spoken quite correctly 

 regarding him. But he is nothing more than an animal 

 endowed with instincts that lead him to attach himself to 

 man. He acts from instinctive impulses, and neither 

 reflects nor reasons on his conduct. I cannot see that a dog 

 has any end in view in attaching himself to man, or that 

 he knows why he does so. I need not say to your Lordship 

 that the feeling of religious devotion, even as Mr. Darwin 

 has described it, can arise only from the exercise of reason. 

 Mr. Darwin himself indeed allows this, for he tells us that 

 "no being could experience so complex an emotion until 

 advanced in his intellectual and moral faculties to at least 

 a moderately high level." While, in the feelings of a dog 

 towards his master, thon, we see merely the working of 



