CHAPTER XV. 



Crab anit 



' In taking a review of most, if not all the actions of the animal world, it must 

 be obvious that, whether we allow them reason or not, the actions themselves com- 

 prehend those elements of reason, so to speak, which we commonly refer to rational 

 beings, so that if the same actions had been done by our fellow-creatures, we should 

 have ascribed them without hesitation to motives and feelings worthy of a rational 

 nature.' SCHLEIDER. 



1 All things are bigge with jest ; nothing that's plain 

 But may be wittie, if thou hast the vein.' 



GEORGE HEKBEKT. 



