REASONABLE BUT UNREASONING 



They have no language because their brains are 

 not developed to the language point. But to have 

 emotions and feelings and associations and repul- 

 sions, the sense of direction, the sense of home, 

 the love of offspring, the fear of enemies, we do not 

 need a language, we need only the senses. 



The animals show human traits every hour in 

 the day, but my contention is that they do not show 

 anything like human intelligence. The two pairs 

 of orioles I saw one day come in collision as I was 

 passing along the road behaved, I thought, in a 

 very human way. Each couple had a nest in elm 

 trees that stood near one another on the roadside, 

 and were, of course, more or less jealous of each 

 other's rights. As I was passing, the two females 

 had come to blows in a clump of willows a few 

 yards away and were having a lively scrap. In- 

 stantly the two males appeared, hurrying side by 

 side to the scene of the squabble of their mates. 

 Just what took place on their arrival I could not 

 clearly make out, except that the females separated 

 and the males came to blows. After sparring a 

 moment or two, they alighted on the wire fence a 

 few feet apart, where they eyed each other sharply 

 and exchanged some very emphatic words, the 

 purport of which I could only guess. How very 

 human, I thought, that two husbands, in inter- 

 fering in a quarrel between their wives, should get 

 each other by the ears! My neighbor and I got 

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