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savages previously alluded to as coining within the 

 category a plausible and by no means unreasonable 

 or illogical conclusion. But, as we are aware, those 

 natures which have the most sensitive and delicate 

 nervous organisations possess the highest and finest 

 form of courage viz. moral and such individuals, when 

 put to the test, evince at first marked internal nervous- 

 ness, then determined courage, in the face of impend- 

 ing danger ; while the more serious the peril, and the 

 more delicately refined the organisation a woman's, for 

 instance the greater the courage. 



Compari- So with animals. A horse, for example, although 

 that aware of a danger at which he will first of all exhibit 

 animals distinct symptoms of alarm, will eventually face it, 

 because his reasoning power comes to his assistance. 

 But it cannot control its feelings like a man, on 

 account of its comparative inferiority, in addition 

 to its deficiency in that moral self-control which even 

 in humanity is in gradations, increasing in intellectual 

 refinement and advancement by classes, according to 

 the standards we raise in, and the nice distinctions that 

 we draw between, certain abstract qualities, and which 

 is the distinguishing feature the line of demarcation, 

 in fact which divides the human and animal kingdoms ; 

 whereas a man in the same predicament, although 

 equally frightened, will conceal his emotions, or only 

 betray them by a slight nervousness at the most. 

 Confi- When, therefore, you persuade a horse to face this 



to reason danger, which he will if well bred, or if you go the 

 right way to work with him, he displays, I maintain, 

 distinct intelligence and a clear connected train of 

 reasoning by placing confidence in you, and by going 



