18 DOGS, BIRDS, AND OTHERS 



meaningless scribble, and the remedy is to ' ' learn to read. " 

 I believe that these letters play no small or insignificant 

 part in teaching us how to read. For they help us to see 

 that what great and sensitive men have felt to be right and 

 true in our relations with animal life is endorsed by what 

 Professor Gamble calls " the fundamental psychical uni- 

 formity of living things," from which all the later 

 humanities logically evolve by, in other words, the 

 structure of the universe. 



H. J. M. 



