TIME AND CHANGE 
I have never known any of our wild birds to steal 
the nesting-material of another bird of the same 
. kind, but I have known birds to try to carry off the 
material belonging to other species. 
But usually the rule of might is the rule of right 
among the animals. As to most of the other com- 
mandments, — of coveting, of bearing false wit- 
ness, of honoring the father and the mother, and so 
forth, — how can these apply to the animals or have 
any biological value to them? Parental obedience 
among them is not a very definite thing. There is 
neither obedience nor disobedience, because there 
are no commands. The alarm-cries of the parents 
are quickly understood by the young, and their ac- 
tions imitated in the presence of danger, all of 
which of course has a biological value. 
The instances which Mr. Seton cites of animals 
fleeing to man for protection from their enemies 
prove to my mind only how the greater fear drives 
out the lesser. The hotly pursued animal sees a pos- 
sible cover in a group of men and horses or in an 
unoccupied house, and rushes there to hide. What 
else could the act mean? Soa hunted deer or sheep 
will leap from a precipice which, under ordinary 
circumstances, it would avoid. So would a man. 
Fear makes bold in such cases. 
T certainly have found “good in everything,” — 
in all natural processes and products, — not the 
“good” of the Sunday-school books, but the good of 
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