178 DARWINISM STATED BY DARWIN HIMSELF. . 



the baboon rejoiced and triumphed whenever he saw his 

 Tictim. 



p ^ ^ The lore of a dog for his master is noto- 



rious ; as an old writer quaintly says, "A 

 dog is the only thing on this earth that Invs you more 

 than he Iuts himself." 



In the agony of death a dog has been known to caress 

 his master, and every one has heard of the dog suffering 

 under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator ; 

 this man, unless the operation was fully justified by an 

 increase of our knowledge, or unless he had a heart of 

 stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life. 



p ^ ^ Most of the more complex emotions are 



common to the higher animals and ourselves. 

 Every one has seen how jealous a dog is of his master's 

 affection, if lavished on any other creature ; and I have 

 observed the same fact w^th monkeys. This shows that 

 animals not only love, but have desire to be loved. Ani- 

 mals manifestly feel emulation. They love approbation 

 or praise ; and a dog carrying a basket for his master ex- 

 hibits in a high degree self-complacency or pride. There 

 can, I think, be no doubt that a dog feels shame, as dis- 

 tinct from fear, and something very like modesty when 

 begging too often for food. A great dog scorns the snarl- 

 ing of a little dog, and this may be called magnanimity. 

 Several observers have stated that monkeys certainly dis- 

 like being laughed at ; and they sometimes invent imagi- 

 nary offenses. In the Zoological Gardens I saw a baboon 

 who always got into a furious rage when his keeper took 

 out a letter or book and read it aloud to him ; and his 

 rage was so violent that, as I witnessed on one occasion, 

 he bit his own leg till the blood flowed. 



