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springs which flow here in the richest abundance." 

 Commenting further in this connection, he writes: 

 "The second volume of his (Buchner's) 'Physiolog- 

 ical Pictures' will also contain an essay upon the 

 mind of animals. In this essay it will be shown by 

 numerous well-authenticated examples and facts that 

 the intellectual activities, faculties, feelings and ten- 

 dencies of man are foreshadowed in an almost incred- 

 ible degree in the animal mind. Love, fidelity, grati- 

 tude, sense of duty, religious feeling, friendship, con- 

 scientiousness and the highest self-sacrifice, pity and 

 the sense of justice and injustice, as also pride, jeal- 

 ousy, hatred, malice, cunning and desire of revenge, 

 are known to the animal, as well as reflection, pru- 

 dence, the highest craft, precaution, care for the fu- 

 ture, etc. nay, even gormandizing, which is usually 

 ascribed to man exclusively, exerts sway also over 

 the animal. Animals know and practice the funda- 

 mental law and arrangements of the State and of 

 society, of slavery and caste, of domestic economy, 

 education and sick nursing ; they make the most won- 

 derful structures in the way of houses, caves, nests, 

 paths and dams ; they hold assemblies and public de- 

 liberations and even courts of justice upon offenders ; 



