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feeling is the same in man as in them, although, of course, 
the mode of manifesting it is different. We have shown the 
fallacy of the theory that parental love is life-enduring in 
man and very brief among the animals, and have seen that, 
in proportion to the duration of life, it is quite as brief 
among the savages as among the animals. And, again, we 
have seen where it has been lost and then restored, and also 
where it was never lost ; where in animals, as in man, it has 
caused complete abnegation of self, the parents living for 
their children, and not for themselves, and where it has given 
strength to the weak and courage to the timid. Even the 
very fishes have been shown to be amenable to the same 
influences as man, and could we have carried our illustrations 
still lower down the scale we would have found the same 
influences existing among much humbler forms of animal 
existences. In conclusion, there is no resisting the fact that 
parental love, one of the highest and holiest feelings of 
which a loving and immortal soul can be capable, is shared 
equally by man and beast, according to their respective 
capacities. 
