8o A BOOK OF MORTALS 



And from such a foundation the belief that the wolf was 

 specially open to possession by the evil spirits of other lives 

 might well have grown to the actual dimensions which it 

 has assumed in the life of man. 



It is, at any rate, suggestive to remember the domestic 

 development of the dog from the wolf ; a development 

 made, presumably, for the sake of the primeval hunter and 

 shepherd. 



