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fection of his nervous structure, is a highly intelli- 

 gent animal; and this may appear to conflict with 

 the statement above. It is true, as everybody 



knows, he is an extremely intelligent creature, 

 and answers quickly to every impulse ; but it is a 

 quickness and intelligence which is dependent 

 upon automatic or reflex action, and not upon any 

 intellectual perception of the justice or fitness of 

 anything he is asked to do. In the region of 

 action the slightest impulse will animate and 

 stimulate him to the repetition of former perform- 

 ances ; and we have reason to suppose that he is 

 capable of forming some kind of judgment there- 

 upon. Witness, for instance, the incident related 

 in the early part of this treatise, of the horse 

 refusing to leap a hedge, on the opposite side of 

 which was a quarry. However, whatever may be 

 the nature of his judgment and intelligence, it is 



