XIV 
GATHERED BY THE WAY 
I. THE TRAINING OF WILD ANIMALS 
WAS reminded afresh of how prone we all are 
to regard the actions of the lower animals in 
the light of our own psychology on reading “'The 
Training of Wild Animals,” by Bostock, a well- 
known animal-trainer. Bostock evidently knows 
well the art of training animals, but of the science of 
it he seems to know very little. That is, while he is a 
successful trainer, his notions of animal psychology 
are very crude. For instance, on one page he speaks 
of the lion as if it were endowed with a fair mea- 
sure of human intelligence, and had notions, feel- 
ings, and thoughts like our own; on the next page, 
when he gets down to real business, he lays bare its 
utter want of these things. He says a lion born and 
bred in captivity is more difficult to train than one 
caught from the jungle. Then he gives rein to his 
fancy. “Such alion does not fear man; he knows 
his own power. He regards man as an inferior, with 
an attitude of disdain and silent hauteur.” “He 
accepts his food as tribute, and his care as homage 
due.” “He is aristocratic in his independence.” 
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