The Horse, as Comrade and Friend 



greater, hence the great development in the 

 mass of the human brain. 



In man and the other mammals the stimuli 

 and methods of procreation are the same ; 

 the methods of carrying and bearing their 

 young, the sustenance of their young when 

 born, and their affection for their young, all 

 are the same in essence. What variation 

 there is in detail, is the circumstance of diver- 

 gent anatomical structure and mode of life. 



But in the degree of development of the 

 young at birth, the most extraordinary vari- 

 ations occur. Kittens and puppies are born 

 blind, and are utterly helpless prey to any 

 bird or beast for whom they would form food. 

 For many days they sleep the whole time, 

 waking only for sustenance, and but for the 

 hereditary abilities of their mothers to success- 

 fully hide them, cats and dogs would long 

 ere this have been extinct species. The human 

 progeny, who arrives endowed with no more 

 intelligence than a bag of pulp, is in worse 

 case still, for the enlarged infant, while wholly 

 incapable of resistance but presenting solid 

 attractions as a meal for carnivora, declines 

 to lie low and remain hid in a bush. His 

 habit of advertising his precise locality by 

 piercing lamentations would have wiped tlie 

 human species also out of existence ; but for 

 the marvellous caprice, developed of heredity, 

 of the human female, who unprovided, like the 



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