How Animals Talk 



man should feel another's mood at a distance 

 of three or four feet. Whether we can explain 

 the phenomenon on strictly biological or scientific 

 grounds is another matter. 



I am not a biologist, unfortunately, and must go 

 cat-footedly when I enter that strange garret. I 

 look with wonder on these patient, unemotional 

 men who care nothing for a bear or an eagle, but 

 who creep lower and ever lower in the scale of 

 living things, searching with penetrating looks 

 among infinitesimal microbes for the secret that 

 shall solve the riddle of the universe by telling us 

 what life is. And because man is everywhere the 

 same, watching these exploring biologists I re- 

 member the curious theology of certain South- 

 Pacific savages, who say that God made all 

 things, the stars and the world and the living man; 

 but we cannot see Him because He is so very small, 

 because a dancing mote or a grain of sand is for 

 Him a roomy palace. Yet even with a modest 

 little knowledge of biology we may find a view- 

 point, I think, from which telepathy or thought- 

 transference would appear as natural, as in- 

 evitable, as the forthgoing of light from a burning 

 lamp. 



Thus, historically there was a time when the 

 living cell, or the cell-of-life, as one biologist calls it 

 with rare distinction, was sensitive only to pres- 



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