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which requires the constraint and control of law and 

 society to keep it properly in subjection. 

 Affection That it is this magnetism between the human and 



between . . . . 



man and animal creations which, though in degrees, developing 

 dogs, &c. from affinity in certain animals, and therefore of a 

 stronger and higher order, brings us nearer together, 

 and that it is man's superior intelligence and intellect 

 which enables him to trace the connection which unites 

 the different kingdoms, seems quite a reasonable de- 

 duction. 



Affinity There is, however, another way to look at it. It 



similarity has been asserted that man seeks his affinities ; and we 

 develop- have all heard of the old saying that c a man is known 

 by the company he keeps,' another way simply of 

 saying that his nervous system and that of his asso- 

 ciates is similarly developed. But if this were true, 

 why should he seek his affinity any more than that 

 it should seek him ? The chances are, if chance has 

 anything to say to it, that in nine cases out of ten the 

 stronger development draws the weaker towards it ; or, 

 if they are equal in strength, the attraction is mutual. 

 And so it is equally possible that the nervous system 

 of man and certain animals (dogs and horses) is on 

 a similar but comparative scale ; and the latter, look- 

 ing up to the former as a being of a higher order, 

 are so attracted and impelled towards him. 

 Physical Schweinfurth, in his ' Heart of Africa,' calls atten- 



between tion to ' the remarkable law of nature which provides 

 that similar conditions of existence should produce 

 corresponding types amongst all ranks of animal crea- 

 tion.' In other words, to the striking analogy that 

 exists between man and certain animals. But he 



