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of the dog. His are taught their proper business 

 thoroughly ; but there it ends. ' I never makes them 

 learn no tricks/ says he, ' because I don't like to see 

 'em made fools of.' I have observed that almost 

 all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go 

 down to their business in the green meadows, admit 

 the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. 

 It is the cabinet thinkers who construct a universe of 

 automatons. 



No better illustration of the two modes of obser- 

 vation can be found than in the scene of Goethe's 

 ' Faust ' where Faust and Wagner walking in the field 

 are met by a strange dog. The first sees something 

 more than a mere dog ; he feels the presence of an 

 intelligence within the outward semblance— in this 

 case an evil intelligence, it is true, but still a some- 

 thing beyond mere tail and paws and ears. To 

 Wagner it is a dog and nothing more — that will sit at 

 the feet of his master and fawn on him if spoken to, 

 who can be taught to fetch and carry or bring a stick ; 

 the end, however, proves different. So one mind sees 

 the outside only ; another projects itself into the mind 

 of the creature, be it dog or horse or bird. 



Experience certainly educates the dog as it does 

 the man. After long acquaintance and practice in 

 the field we learn the habits and ways of game — to 



