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mind provided with a reasoning intelligence (without, 

 however, being itself aware of the logical content of 

 such an intelligence), exactly because it is rather poor 

 in logical self-conscious content or, again, it may be, 

 that the animal in a certain sense is nearer than we 

 to the " fountains of life." (9). 



The possibility of this " declanchement " would 

 therefore constitute the second and more serious 

 discovery made by the educators of animals ; although 

 without their knowing it, as is proved by all their 

 accounts which make no mention of it. 



It is difficult to say what the precise moment is at 

 which the grafting of this supernormal connexion on 

 the normal one takes place. The most that I can say 

 at present is this : that the grafting in question 

 appears relatively to be quicker as regards the mathe- 

 matical results. And this would lend an indirect 

 support to the view that generally mathematics must 

 be presupposed as underlying the phenomena. But 

 the wonderful performances of Lola show that even so 

 far as there is real " intelligence " in the animal, the 

 supernormal relationship enters very quickly on the 

 scene. In other words, the subject very quickly 

 learns to express itself by means of a true " xeno- 

 glossy," i.e. by means of a language that may be clear 

 to other people although it probably is not understood 

 by the animal or medium making use of it. 



Besides, we find in Lola's case a high degree of glosso- 

 lalia. The authoress observes, e.g. on page 39 : " Lola 

 often uses words completely incomprehensible ; at one 

 time she declared that they belonged to a special canine 

 language. My investigations on this subject remained, 

 however, without result. It is possible that these words 

 arise from the imagination of the animal. . . ."* Some- 



1 N.B. It may also be that the " quite incomprehensible words " 

 have not any meaning at all, or at least, not any relation with the 



