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to do it by barking. Tessie is no humbug, as Mr. 

 Classon, her intelligent and loving companion, is 

 neither a fraud nor an adventurer. He says the 

 only explanation is that of telepathic influence. 

 When the brain of a dog becomes so sensitive to 

 its human companionship, so responsive, that it 

 catches the movements of the human mind and 

 transforms them into volitional impulses of dog 

 consciousness, we have a revelation of the power of 

 education, the contagious character of thought, the 

 rewards of companionship and of social psychol- 

 ogy that is profoundly suggestive." 



You have, plainly, something more to do in com- 

 ing out of the herded city life than simply to build 

 a home and enjoy what you can of the world as it 

 is. You have something far higher to do — that 

 is, to make the world better, and everything in it 

 wiser and happier. I think people are beginning 

 to understand this, so far as improvement of fruits, 

 vegetables, and flowers is concerned, but it is not 

 so clearly understood that we have also to raise up 

 the whole animal kingdom. It may be that in the 

 highest sense the end of creative purpose is the evo- 

 lution of man, but sure it is that we cannot go up 

 alone. All life is one life, and you must come out 



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