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CHAPTER XIII. 



DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



IT is assumed by Darwin and other natural- 

 ists that all domestic animals come from the 

 allied wild species ; but although their simi- 

 larity in appearance points at first sight to 

 this conclusion, differences between them in 

 temperament and disposition, as persistent 

 as differences in physique, prove them to 

 be distinct races. 



The origin of the domesticity of all 

 domestic animals is shrouded in mystery. 

 We learn from the most ancient records of 

 the human race, as well as from bones 

 found in the debris of the lake -dwellings 

 of the Neolithic age, that domestic animals 

 have been associated with man from the 

 earliest times, and, so far as we know, 

 domestication has always been their natural 

 condition. 1 



1 Neolithic man had already domesticated the dog, horse, 

 goat, and sheep (Page and Lapworth's Geology, p. 287). 



