XIII 
MARY’S LITTLE LAMB 
Tus is the history of a pet lamb that differed 
mentally from other lambs I have known. One 
does not look for anything approaching to marked 
individuality in that animal, yet sheep do show it 
on occasions though not in the same degree as 
cats and dogs. Goats exhibit more character than 
sheep, probably because we do not compel them to 
live in a crowd. Indeed, when we consider how 
our poor domesticated sheep is kept we can see 
that they have little chance of developing in- 
dividuality of mind. A sheep cannot “follow his 
own genius,” so to speak, without infringing the 
laws we have made for his kind. His condition in 
this respect is similar to that of human beings 
under a purely socialistic form of government: 
for example, like that of the ancient civilised 
Peruvians. In that state every man did as he was 
told: worked and rested, got up and sat down, 
ate, drank, and slept, married, grew old and died 
in the precise way prescribed. And I daresay if 
he tried to be original or to do something out of 
the common he was knocked on the head. So 
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