VI 



IOOKING back a moment on our trail of 

 L/ animal "talk" before following it onward, 

 we see, first, that birds and beasts have certain 

 audible cries which convey a more or less definite 

 meaning of food or danger or assembly; and 

 second, that they apparently have also some "tel- 

 epathic" faculty of sending emotional impulses 

 to others of their kind at a distance. The last 

 has not been proved, to be sure; we have seen 

 little more than enough to establish it as a working 

 hypothesis; but whether we study science or his- 

 tory or an individual bird or beast, it is better to 

 follow some integrating method or principle than 

 to blunder around in a chaos of unrelated details. 



