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animals live only in the present, which implies that they 

 have no foresight. 



13. Sydney Smith's opinion that mind in animals exists 

 only for the preservation of the body, or that all their actions 

 bear either on self-preservation or reproduction. 



14. The ascription of all kinds of mental excitement or 

 forms of insanity in animals to rabies in other words, the 

 non-discrimination of the nature of the different sorts of 

 animal madness. 



15. The hue and cry after animals reputedly ' mad,' and 

 their summary destruction when caught. 



16. Belief in the incurability and in the dangerousness 

 to man of all forms of animal l madness.' 



17. The idea that rabies occurs only in the so-called dog- 

 days of summer, or during hot weather. 



18. The notion that muzzling dogs is a guarantee against 

 the propagation of rabies. 



19. The opinion that all dog-bites must or may produce 

 hydrophobia in man, proceeding as they presumably do from 

 rabid animals. 



20. Forcing animals to duties that are not understood by 

 them, that are unpalatable, or that are unsuited to their 

 powers, bodily or mental. 



21. Regarding affection for man as a matter of self- 

 interest only. 



22. Comte talking of the incapacity for instruction in 

 apes. 



23. Superstitions regarding, for instance, the were-wolf, 

 man-tiger, man-hysena, griffins, dragons, phoenix, salamander, 

 chimsera, fauns, satyrs, naiads, dryads, and hamadryads, 

 witchcraft, and the transmigration of souls. 



24. Inaccuracies in observation and description by authors 

 of all classes, especially poets, novelists, and theologians, but 

 even by mental philosophers and naturalists of the highest 

 eminence. 



25. The comparative but fictitious exaltation of man by 

 the degradation or depreciation of other animals; the sup- 

 posed necessary inferiority of the latter or what comes to 

 the same thing the alleged superiority or supremacy of man. 



