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favorite themes. Nevertheless, on analysis, all these 

 qualities, as exhibited by the dog, are found to be far 

 short of the ideal perfection ascribed to him. The 

 man who first said "The more I see of men the better 

 I like dogs" could hardly have been serious, or, if he 

 was serious, he knew neither men nor dogs pro- 

 foundly, assuming that he had a normal mind. The 

 dog as we find him is companionable and devoted 

 enough. Man, nevertheless, could lose the compan- 

 ionship of the dog much better than the dog could 

 that of man. In material advantages he is a gainer 

 by his association with man. 



On the question of animal intelligence, the eminent 

 philosopher, Dr. Ludwig Buchner, in his work, 

 "Man in the Past, Present and Future," sets forth 

 that, "Indeed, it is sufficiently well known that the 

 intellectual life of animals has hitherto been greatly 

 underestimated or falsely interpreted, simply because 

 our closet philosophers always started, not from an 

 impartial and unprejudiced observation and appre- 

 ciation of Nature, but from philosophical theories in 

 which the true position, both of man and animals, 

 was entirely misunderstood. But as soon as we be- 

 gan to strike into a new path, it was seen that, intel- 



