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admissible. But that it is more than this, and 

 originated ages and countless ages ago in some such 

 affinity as I have tried to describe, I have an inward 

 conviction which I cannot clearly express. 



At all events we have been quite as long associated Want of 



sympathy 



with other animals, such as the cow, sheep, goat and between 

 camel, which are quite as, if not more, useful to us, but camels 

 for which we have little or no affection, because of this 

 very affinity and analogy which they lack. Camels espe- 

 cially, though gregarious, seem to have little if any sym- 

 pathy for each other, and mutual affection, except of the 

 mother for its young and that is not very marked is 

 an unknown quantity. That this want has always pre- 

 vented it from being on the same friendly footing as 

 the horse with the Bedawins of the desert, there can 

 be no doubt ; and that this is due, either to a tacitly an- 

 tagonistic feeling, or, which is more likely, to the non- 

 existence of an affinity between itself and man, seems 

 quite' possible. 



Horses and doss, more so than any other animals, Noble 



J ' qualities 



have in their natures certain noble qualities and cha- of horses 



. . . , . and dogs 



racteristics which not only endear them in our eyes, 

 but which call for our respect and our admiration, and 

 which are worthy of our imitation, among them un- 

 swerving fidelity, obedience, constancy, patience and 

 submission, which human nature may equal but not 

 excel, and the examples of which many of us would 

 do well to follow. Even the much maligned camel is 

 a living and everlasting monument to us of sub- 

 mission and long suffering, which is in marked contra- 

 distinction to the impatience, impulse, and impetuosity, 

 as well as to the wilful lawlessness of human nature, 



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