THE ANIMAL MIND 



tellectual side; he can never share our thoughts 

 any more than he does now. He has not, nor have 

 any of the lower orders, that which Ray Lankester 

 aptly calls educability, that which distinguishes 

 man from all other creatures. We can train animals 

 to do wonderful things, but we cannot develop in 

 them, or graft upon them, this capacity for intellect- 

 ual improvement, to grasp and wield and store up 

 ideas. Man's effect upon trained animals is like the 

 effect of a magnet upon a piece of steel: for the 

 moment he imparts some of his own powers to them, 

 and holds them up to the ideal plane, but they are 

 not permanently intellectualized; no new power is 

 developed in them; and they soon fall back to their 

 natural state. What they seem to acquire is not 

 free intelligence that they can apply to other prob- 

 lems. We have not enlarged their minds, but have 

 shaped their impulses to a new pattern. They are 

 no wiser, but they are more apt. They do a human 

 " stunt," but they do not think human thoughts. 



IV 



In all the millions of years that life has been upon 

 the globe, working its wonders and its transforma- 

 tions, there had been no bit of matter possessing the 

 power that the human-brain cortex possesses till 

 man was developed. The reason of man, no matter 

 how slow it may have been in finding itself, was a 

 new thing in the world, apparently not contem- 

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