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Little knowledge of savages available — Observations on the 

 lower animals — Nose-greeting in animals — Smell in savages 

 — Our unconscious sense of smell — Gypsies and savages on 

 a level — Nerves of smell — The dog in his world of smells — 

 Small woodland beasts in their world — How we are moved 

 by hidden causes — Antipathies — Classical cases and modern 

 instances — Antipathies and second sight — A strange case; 

 clairvoyance or sense of smell ? 



IT may seem unfair, after announcing my sub- 

 ject to be the sense of smell, conscious and 

 unconscious, in man, that I have still kept on 

 about the lower animals. I can't treat the subject 

 in any other way : I need their help all the 

 time. Doubtless there's a great gulf between us 

 and them in the higher mental faculties, but apart 

 from that there is no gulf at all ; they are, as 

 we have been told, our poor relations, and like all 

 poor relations they are always ready to remind us 

 of our own humble origin. I do think it would be 

 well to examine these questions among the lower 

 races of mankind; but I can't do it myself, and most 

 persons who have the opportunity of going among 

 savages and primitive tribes have their minds occupied 

 with other matters. It is possible, as Frazer has shown 

 us, to write a cart-load of books about their folk- 

 lore, legends and old religious beliefs, without letting 

 us see and know them as they are, and how they 



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