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Life and Love. 



XIV. 



THE MAMMAL. 



IN passing from the lower to the higher forms of 

 hfe we come finally to the great division of the 

 mammals. The mammalian 

 division is an extensive one, 

 and its chief, man, marks it 

 as the one most familiar as 

 well as all-important to us. 

 In it is most fully illustrated, 

 so far as our limited powers of 

 observation now take us, that 

 great faculty we call the mind. 

 This division is made illustrious 

 by that in man which has been 

 called " the mind of the mind," " the 

 inner mind," the psyche, the soul, 

 that by which we aspire, by which 

 we understand the meanings of life 

 and of the universe. 



In this division are to be found 



man's most familiar friends and allies, 



as well as some of his more dreaded enemies, 



— the horse, the cow, the pig (though he does 



not seem to know whether to class him as friend 



