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the sphere of sensitive instinct into the province of 

 spirituaHty and morality: and because the love of a 

 mother is a rational love^ conscious of duty, there- 

 fore it is the highest and noblest love existing in 

 nature. To ascribe such motherly love to animals, 

 as do modern psychologists, is nonsense, scientifically 

 speaking, and morally speaking it is a degradation of 

 human dignity. 



