278 INDIVIDUALITY. 



sisted in rushing into handsome lodgings, pretending to 

 have made a mistake as to the place ; and his f dignity was 

 soothed ' when his owner moved into apartments to his (the 

 dog's) taste. Another dog liked carriages, but objected to 

 cats. 



On the other hand and this character-contrast occurred 

 in the property of the same master one dog was as vulgar 

 as another was aristocratic. The former is described as a 

 ' thorough vulgarian in mind. He prefers bad company, 

 lives by choice in the kitchen, is rude and unmannerty, 

 never barks at a beggar, and delights in a general row or 

 fight over a bone ' (Wood) . 



A retriever of Berkeley's showed a detestation of labour- 

 ing men as a class. A terrier belonging to a clergyman is 

 described as a ' queer, faithful, blundering dog,' full of in- 

 dividuality, if not eccentricity, with a tendency to morbid 

 peculiarities of temper and mind. It had a marked antipathy 

 to its master's clerical costume of orthodox black ; perhaps, 

 it is suggested, because of having been 6 accustomed to the 

 light costumes of India.' 



Much more probably, in such cases of morbid indivi- 

 duality, such phenomena of aversion are not mere matters or 

 results of habit present or former but are the outcome of 

 disease, involving the brain and general nervous system, the 

 effect of climatic influences, such as sunstroke. The very 

 same kind of changes in temper and thought, the same sort 

 of irascibility, antipathies, delusionalness, or suspiciousness, 

 arise quite commonly in men who are exposed, in the civil 

 or military services, to the climate of India and of the tro- 

 pics generally. 



Singular apparently causeless unaccountable aversions, 

 dislikes, or distastes, constitute one of the commonest forms 

 of what may be considered a morbid individuality or eccen- 

 tricity. Unaccountable ones, we say, because there are many 

 others that are quite accountable and intelligible, that merely 

 prove, in the animal exhibiting them, a memory of wrong 

 suffered, with perhaps an associated desire for revenge. There 

 are certain kinds of antipathy that are of a very marked cha- 

 racter, and that are transmitted from generation to generation, 



