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WILD TRAITS IN TAME ANIMALS. 



had long ago traversed the very ground which 

 civiHsed human communities are now entering 

 upon for the first time in the history of our race. 

 Possibly by studying such examples of natural 

 social and political relationships as those whicli 

 we have been briefly discussing, our statesmen 

 and moralists might obtain some help in their 

 attempts to solve some of the burning questions 

 which are so sorely troubling them at the present 

 day. 



