DO MEN THINK ? 101 



The student must be able to imagine how he 

 would express his emotions with vocal organs capa- 

 ble of producing only grunts, whines, growls or 

 bellowing; he must think how he would act if, 

 like the dog, his sense of smell was so acute that 

 each individual stick, stone, tree, and shrub ; each 

 patch of earth, sand or water, possessed to him a 

 distinct and recognizable odor; how he would 

 move if he had the body of a frog, a snake, a tur- 

 tle, or an elephant. 



He must conceive how he would conduct himself 

 if, like the hawk he had a sight so keen as to be 

 able to know food, drink, friend and foe at dis- 

 tances, only possible to him now, when his human 

 eyes are aided by the most powerful field glasses. 



Formerly it was the general custom of writers 

 to endow the birds and 



BEASTS WITH WONDERFUL HUMAN MINDS, 



and more than human sentiment. There has been 

 a change since those romantic days, and now every- 

 thing in the scale of life below man is, by many, 

 called an automaton, in other words a machine. 



In the ancient Book of English Dogges printed 

 in the sixteenth century a story is told of Henry 

 the Seventh becoming angry because 



FOUR "BANDOGGES" CONQUERED A LION 



in fair battle, and he "commanded all such dogges 

 (how many soeuer they were in number) should 



