CHAPTER VI. 
The Mind and Character of the Dog — Instances of Intelligence 
and Concerted Action in Wild Species —The Influence 
of Association with Man—Sir John Lubbock on the 
Education of Dogs— Similarity of Mental Processes in 
the Dog and in Man—Travelling Dogs—-The Moral 
Sense of the Dog — Fossil Representatives of the Carnivora. 
We may now turn to the more pleasant task of considering 
the mind and character of the dog in health. In intelli- 
gence, as such, he is, perhaps, not superior to the elephant 
or monkey; but in no other animal do we find that devotion 
to man which is a trait of the moral character, and raises 
him far above all others. “He that can endure to follow 
with allegiance a fallen lord” may well read a lesson to 
time-serving humanity. His virtues have been celebrated 
in prose and song by some of the highest in intellect and 
the noblest in character; but, strange to say, the poet who 
of all men was most catholic in his sympathies—Shakspeare 
—has scarcely a good word to say throughout his writings 
for the universal friend of man. With very few exceptions, 
all his allusions are unfavourable. He makes Launce, it is 
true, when apostrophising his dog, say: “Nay, I'll be sworn 
I have sat on the stocks for puddings he has stolen; other- 
wise he had been executed. I have stood on the pillory for 
geese ne has killed; otherwise he had suffered for ’t.” And 
there is, perhaps, a kindly touch in the passage in “King 
