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do a thing for its own sake yet after all do not 

 they, too, seek their reward ? albeit in a more idealistic 

 manner, since it will consist in the success of their 

 undertaking. 



Yet these gentlemen thought that animals ought to 

 exhibit the ethical single-mindedness of exceptional 

 individuals 1 The " mere beast " so belittled, as a 

 rule that it is vouchsafed less " right to the earth " 

 than is the sole of a man's foot ! How significant this 

 may be said to be of the mental attitude in which these 

 gentlemen sat in judgment : men, who, doubtless, 

 considered they were doing their very utmost in the 

 service of science I 



After Lola had mastered the numerals as far as 

 twenty I started her at simple multiplication, explain- 

 ing these again on my fingers and the counting frame 

 and here, too, I found her a ready pupil. Indeed, 

 there really does seem something so very obvious in 

 2 and 2 things being 4 things I and we proceeded 

 by degrees to multiply up to fifty. 



I would say, for instance, over the morning coffee : 

 " Lola, to-day the fours are to have a turn : I x 4 

 4, 2 x 4 = 8," and I would let her multiply with 

 four about three times, straight on from the beginning 

 first, and then dodging about irregularly. She usually 

 did this without any mistake whatever, and I was 

 now getting quite used to the celerity with which she 

 worked. The only difficulties were in connexion with 

 10 x 3 and 10 x 4, where she would constantly make 

 a slip, for then the left paw came into action, and her 

 consciousness was not yet sufficiently concentrated on 

 that left paw. Dogs and horses must, I imagine, 

 have a most splendid faculty for visualizing figures 

 to judge from the rapidity with which they work. 



It took us nine days to accomplish the multiplication 



