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of all his natural appetites,, instincts, or passions in a more 

 marked form or degree than do many of the lower animals, 

 especially the dog. Mere will in other animals is frequently 

 as self-assertive and powerful as in man, as is evidenced by 

 their resolution, determination, and perseverance. 



21. Taste for the beautiful, the good, and the true. Es- 

 thetic taste is superior in many birds to its standard where 

 any exists in large numbers of men even among civilised 

 races, and still more so in the majority of savage races. 

 Among ourselves it has become a proverb, ' De gustibus nil 

 disputandum ; ' and if we confine ourselves to woman's taste 

 in dress alone, it must be confessed that she has much to 

 learn from the lower animals, especially birds. While it can 

 scarcely be asserted that other animals appreciate the good 

 or the true seeing that we have no means of ascertaining 

 their capacities or ideas in this direction it can with much 

 certainty be affirmed that whole races of man, and whole 

 classes of men in the midst of our highest civilisation, have 

 no conception of either moral goodness or of truth a 

 subject which is treated of in one of the chapters on the 

 ' Moral Sense.' 



22. Sense of ennui. But it undoubtedly exists in other 

 animals under the same circumstances as in man for in- 

 stance, among luxuriously kept house pets. In the dog it is 

 one of the causes of suicide. 



23. Love of sport for its own sake. Dr. Eobert Brown, 

 however, tells us that * no savage has any idea of sport,' 

 while dogs and other animals hunt for their own amuse- 

 ment, and share all man's pleasures in the race or chase or 

 in games of various kinds. 



24. Laughter, tears, and soiling. But a special chapter 

 is devoted to show that neither the one nor the other is 

 peculiarly human. 



25. Use of tools and weapons. To this subject also a sepa- 

 rate chapter is devoted, showing how many instruments, 

 natural or artificial, are used by the lower animals, and 

 under what variety of circumstances. 



26. Knowledge and practice of agriculture. Whole races 

 of savage man, however, have no agriculture of any kind, no 



