NOVEMBER 285 



and relation, though inferior in range, to that of 

 man. Herein might be traced to their source the 

 compliance of all animals with the rules which regulate 

 their behaviour and habits ; the secret impulse which 

 causes the chaffinch to adhere, generation after genera- 

 tion, to one type of nest and the rook to another ; and 

 the impalpable currents of affection, fear, hate, and other 

 psychical forces which act independently of the intellect. 



It is difficult to explain the co-operative instinct of 

 dogs as the mere outcome of co-ordinate, congenital 

 activities. Through what avenue has a dog derived a 

 sociable impulse so inveterate that, even when it is 

 segregated from its own kind and adopts man as a 

 comrade, it can do nothing alone ? There are depraved 

 dogs which will go hunting and marauding alone, but 

 they are very rare ; and perhaps are acting under some 

 perverse suggestion that has found its way to their 

 subliminal conscience. As a rule, dogs will only hunt 

 in couples, in packs, or singly when associated with a 

 human master or mistress. From the stateliest deer- 

 hound to the puniest lapdog, none will take exercise 

 alone ; provide an acceptable human companion, and 

 the dog will travel all day. And suppose that it should 

 ever be proved that dogs act according to the mandate 

 imposed upon their kind by a superior Power, conveyed 

 through a channel hitherto inscrutable, how could 

 animals lower than dogs hermit-crabs, for example 

 be declared incapable of receiving similar supersensory 

 stimulus ? 



In justice to Mr. Myers's memory, let it be said plainly 

 that he never lent himself to any such hypothesis. On 



