Mind in Animals. 365 
of the man. And that generosity, being a divine attribute, 
belongs to the spirit and not to the body, no believer in 
Christianity is likely to deny. Therefore, wherever we find 
this characteristic developed, we must admit the presence of 
an immortal spirit. 
That the lower animals do possess generosity in the sense 
of Liberality will now be proved from circumstances that have 
occurred within my own observation. My first proof isa 
very interesting one, and is drawn from the life of a dog that 
was the companion of my school-boy days. Sport was the 
name of the animal. He was not a greedy, selfish creature, 
but a generous, noble fellow. Many an act of self-sacrifice 
had he been known to perform, and he was never happier 
than when he was doing some good to his fellows. It was 
not unlike him, when he would meet a poor, strange and 
hungry animal of his own kind by the roadway, to bring him 
to his master’s house, and at the meal-hour divide with the 
unfortunate his noon-day allowance. Between him and a 
certain cat, called Blackey, which was also a member of the 
same household, there existed a very strong friendship. 
Any injury done the cat was most summarily resented by 
Sport. He would share his meals with her, and never 
seemed satisfied unless she would consent to take. the 
choicest bits. But the generosity was not all on his side, for 
the cat certainly rivalled him in the exercise of this noble 
trait, which all acknowledge to be one of the noblest charac- 
teristics of the human mind. When Blackey was sick, and 
unable to be around, much of the time of the dog would be 
spent in her presence. He would caress her with his paw, 
smooth her silken, jet-black fur with his tongue, and seek by 
every means in his power to raise her drooping spirits and 
alleviate her miseries. No animal, not even man himself, 
could show more real sympathy for a fellow in distress than 
Sport did for Blackey. 
No bird, it would seem, could be expected to manifest so 
little of generosity as the sparrow. Asa rule, sparrows are 
