m CONTENTS. 



the Progressive Development of Mind and Body in the 

 Animal Kingdom. — Sensation the first indication of 

 Mind. — Psychical Properties of the Sea- Anemone. — The 

 Actinia and the Human Infant. — "Animal" or "Na- 

 tural Instinct." — Its universality in the- Animal Kingdom. 

 — The Insect Races : their Higher Psychical Powers ; 

 Fitness of these for the uses of their various Organs, 

 Members, and Actions. — Necessity of the Higher Psy- 

 chical Powers of Insects. — The Bee. — Its Emotions. — 

 Experiment to prove the presence of its Feeling of 

 Anger. — Do Bees think P — Absence of EducabUity in 

 Instinct. — "Rational Instinct." — "Reason," or Intel- 

 ligence : its Relations to the Cerebrum. — Educability 

 and Design, or Conscious Motive, two of its Charac- 

 teristics. — The two Crows and the Dog. — " Instinctive 

 Intelligence." — The Domesticated Animals and Man. — 

 Nature of the Dog.— Its Moral Worth; its Sense of 

 Duty. — Treatment of Domesticated Animals and Chil- 

 dren. — Attributes of Perfect Animals compared with 

 those of Imperfect Men. — Characteristics of Humanity, 

 the Analogues of the Nobler Traits in the Higher Ani- 

 mals. — Tillotson's Views of the Moral Instincts of Man 

 confirmed by Comparative Psychology. — The Dog and 

 the Man. — Man and the Deity. — Summary of the Mental 

 Attributes of Animals. — Retrospect. — Are the "Worm, 

 the Fly, and the Bee commonplace and vmiuteresting ? — 

 Which is the most indispensable? — The care of the 

 Almighty for all His Works.— The various means em- 

 ployed by Him to attain similar ends.— His care of us. 

 — The Relation of the Humble Creatures to ourselves, 

 and our Relation to God. — Conclusion page 135 



