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cat (Houzeau), tortoise (White), dog, swine (Forster), and 

 monkeys (Pierquin). The prairie dog, Gillmore assures us, 

 is superior to a barometer. 



There would appear to be the same kind of exhilaration 

 and depression mental and bodily from climatic influence, 

 in other animals as in man. They simply feel before, because 

 more acutely than, man does the changes that herald further 

 changes. 



Ample illustrations have been given in other parts of this 

 work of the influence of music, vocal or instrumental 



1. As a gentle calmative in states of irritation or excite- 

 ment. 



2. As a mild excitant in conditions of depression. 



3. As a dangerous irritant in certain morbid states of 

 mind or body, including the part it plays occasionally in the 

 development of insanity. 



4. As a stimulant to work of an uncongenial kind to 

 endurance, perseverance, strength, and energy, in ordinary 

 domestic life, of courage and ardour in the war-horse or 

 elephant. 



5. As a means of refinement in animals whom man thinks 

 it worth his while to subject methodically to its power. In 

 other words, music is to be considered in other animals than 

 man one of the fine (or refining) arts, one of which man 

 might well make much better and more extended use in his 

 training of them. 



It is not, therefore, necessary or desirable here to reca- 

 pitulate the more especially that the subject of music, in 

 reference to the lower animals, would require, to do it any- 

 thing like justice, at least a chapter to itself. 



In some animals, as in man, 



Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, 



while in others it begets intolerable agony. In all ages 

 shepherds have sung or piped to their sheep, goats, cattle, in 

 order to encourage them in their work, of whatever nature, 

 including that of feeding and digestion, and so to render 

 them contented and happy. In all ages, too, music of some 

 sort has been employed as a means of producing docility, 



