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harmony, and therefore to the unity and pros- 

 perity of the body politic. 



Although it would seem that the canine im- 

 agination from its very feebleness transforms 

 man into a dog, yet, as we should expect, argu- 

 ing from the cynomorphic hypothesis, it does not 

 stop here. In a most interesting account of 

 the shepherd - dogs of the Argentine, given in 

 ' The Voyage of the Beagle,' Darwin shows 

 that, by a careful system of training, the herds- 

 men have taugrht the dog-s to regard their 

 charges as fellows of the same pack with them- 

 selves ; insomuch that a single dog, although he 

 will flee from an enemy if alone, will, as soon 

 as he reaches the flock to which he is at- 

 tached, turn and face any odds, evidently with 

 the notion that the helpless and frightened 

 sheep ranged behind him are able to back him 

 up just as if they were members of a canine 

 regiment of which he was leader. The pas- 

 sage is too long for quotation, but all who are 

 interested in the subject should refer to it. 



An instance of the operation of the cyno- 

 morphic idea can be seen in the behaviour of 

 a dog when a bone is given to him. He will 

 generally run off with it to some quiet spot, 



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