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of educabilityj yet their actions are directed to the 

 support of the individual or community, minister to 

 the animal enjoyments, or provide for the conti- 

 nuance of the species, aU of which we know to be 

 the distinctive attributes of instinct; but they ex- 

 hibit none of those higher moral quahties that we 

 find in the domesticated animals or in man. 



The natural educability, however, of the former of 

 the two last-named, and their expanded mental ca- 

 pacities, combined with the influence produced by 

 their contact ivith man, create an entire change in 

 their psychical nature, and the intelligence of the 

 brute is elevated to such a degree as to render it 

 capable of acquiring not only the habits of its master, 

 and many of his emotions, but even, in a limited 

 degree, some of those divine attributes by which he 

 is distinguished ffom aU other living creatiu-es. 



It is a well-known and a true saying that man is 

 the god of the dog ; and all those finer emotions of 

 the hum.ble companion of mankind, such as the love 

 that causes him to spring forward to the rescue of a 

 drowning child, the submissive obedience with which 

 he performs his owner's behests, the devotion that 

 prompts him to lick the hand that has chastised him, 

 the grief that chains him to his master's grave, and 

 so overrules his instincts that he vrill die of hunger 

 rather than quit the spot where his benefactor lies 

 buried; all these manifestations of emotion and in- 

 telligence entitle their possessor to a mental rank, 

 very closely approximating that of many a human 



