CHAPTER VIII. 

 The "Intelligence" of "The Higher Animals". 



We now pass over to some striking proofs in sup- 

 port of the fact that the proposition which we have 

 defended with reference to the "most intellectual" of 

 the lower animals applies equally well to the "most 

 intellectual" individuals of the so-called higher ani- 

 mals. Our observations are based principally on some 

 of the clever experiments which Prof. Thorndike and 

 others made with dogs, cats, and monkeys under the 

 most favorable circumstances. We could, of course, 

 adduce similar instances against the intelligence of 

 the higher animals, as we have explained in the 

 proceeding chapter. We could remind our readers of 

 that wonderful dog which, being deprived 'of her 

 young, lavished her maternal ministrations on a pair 

 of old slippers; or of those loving apes which adopt 

 other animals, defend and caress them and clean them 

 of their fleas, but let them die the death of starvation. 

 Our proof against the intelligence of animals would 

 be even more cogent than the one furnished by Mr. 

 Martin, the able editor of a voluminous work on 

 "Natural History", in favor of animal intelligence. 

 Says the worthy Darwinist: "When visiting the 

 zoological garden in Berlin I perceived how the 

 beginnings of a human smile really played on the 

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