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to do it by barking. Tessie is no humbug, as Mr. 
Classon, her intelligent and loving companion, is 
neither a fraud nor an adventurer. He says the 
only explanation is that of telepathic influence. 
When the brain of a dog becomes so sensitive to 
its human companionship, so responsive, that it 
catches the movements of the human mind and 
transforms them into volitional impulses of dog 
consciousness, we have a revelation of the power of 
education, the contagious character of thought, the 
rewards of companionship and of social psychol- 
ogy that is profoundly suggestive.” 
You have, plainly, something more to do in com- 
ing out of the herded city life than simply to build 
a home and enjoy what you can of the world as it 
is. You have something far higher to do — that 
is, to make the world better, and everything in it 
wiser and happier. I think people are beginning 
to understand this, so far as improvement of fruits, 
vegetables, and flowers is concerned, but it is not 
so clearly understood that we have also to raise up 
the whole animal kingdom. It may be that in the 
highest sense the end of creative purpose is the evo- 
lution of man, but sure it is that we cannot go up 
alone. All life is one life, and you must come out 
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