364 Life and Immortahty. 
herd, for it made her sullen and morose, and from that time 
she resented all familiarity upon the part of the master. She 
seemed to view him as her worst enemy. All attempts to 
settle her grievances were viewed in a suspicious manner, 
and the matter of reconciliation had at length to be aban- 
doned. 
Beasts, there is no doubt, were intended to be the servants 
of man, and there is nothing in his hands half so powerful 
in the accomplishment of this end as thoughtful kindness. 
Inflexible decision, combined with gentleness and sympathy, 
are irresistible weapons in his power, and no animal exists, 
. I firmly believe, which cannot be subdued if the right man 
undertakes the task. By this mixture of firmness and kind- 
ness many a wild beast of a horse has been ina half-hour 
rendered gentle and subservient by Rarey, obeying the least 
sign of his conqueror, and permitting himself to be freely 
handled without displaying the slightest resentment. 
That there is something more in memory than a mere 
production of a material brain must seem probable from the 
examples given. In several cases the animals were without 
any brains at all, but in others, where a brain did exist, its 
material particles must have been repeatedly changed, while 
the ideas impressed upon the memory still remained in full 
force. 
Perhaps no attribute of the mind is better fitted to follow 
that which has just been treated than Generosity. But 
whether we accept it in the sense of liberality or magnanim- 
ity, it is certainly a very lofty quality, and one which infi- 
nitely ennobles the character of those who possess it. Taken 
in the former sense, it is an attribute of Deity, who gives us 
freely all that we have, and so sets us an example of gener- 
osity to our fellow-creatures. Now, if it be admitted that 
the possession of generosity ennobles man’s character, while 
the lack of that quality debases it, then the inference is unde- 
niable that when we find a beast possessing generosity, and 
aman devoid of it, the beast is in that particular the superior 
