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me to be beyond the bounds of belief, even though 

 some examples which were supposed to attest to high 

 intelligence seemed to me a little doubtful. I tried 

 to get more information, but was hindered at the time 

 owing to the three years' course of studies I was then 

 pursuing at the Hohenheim School of Agriculture, so 

 that I was neither able to try any experiments on my 

 own part, nor even to read KralTs great work on the 

 subject. The entire question, therefore, remained 

 an open one as far as I was concerned, although my 

 father had been to Elberfeld to see the horses, and had, 

 after making personal tests come to the conclusion 

 that everything was above-board and in accordance 

 with what it claimed to be and that the animals really 

 did give answers which were the outcome of their 

 own independent thinking. In addition to this I 

 read the public communications made by Professor 

 Ziegler at Stuttgart, as well as also his own personal 

 opinions. 



Both these gentlemen, Professor Ziegler, as well as 

 Professor Kraemer, were known to me only in their 

 capacity of serious and consciencious investigators, 

 men upon whose judgment I might safely rely, so long 

 as my own experience did not oblige me to take up a 

 different standpoint. And further, I skimmed over 

 everything that the Press brought forward of an 

 opposing nature, so that I might know their point of 

 view as well. 



After I had passed my Academic Examination, and 

 taken my Diploma, I took over, some six months 

 later, the independant management of a big estate 

 in the Rheinland, which consisted of three hundred 

 acres. (I was able to do this on the strength of some 

 practical experience I had had previously in Thiiringen 

 apart from my studies.) 



