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than they, governed by brutish passions, it is then 

 only that these qualities become detestable; and 

 if we calmly consider the nobler traits in the dispo- 

 sition of these creatures, we shall find that their 

 analogues in ourselves are the very features that 

 constitute our humanity, and the tie that binds us 

 with the Creator. 



When Archbishop Tillotson called the impressions 

 of right and wrong, and the inclination to reverence 

 the Divine nature existing in the minds of men, in- 

 stinctive, and when he compared them with the in- 

 stincts of the brute creatures*, he meant to point 

 out that these are the typical qualities that charac- 

 terize his nature; just as the lower animals are di- 

 stinguished by their various instinctive attributes; 

 and a comparison of their nature with our own shows 

 that his assertion was not merely a figure of speech, 

 but that the principle which he enunciated forms the 

 crowning feature in the comparative history of mind. 

 In the dog, for example, the nobler moral traits are 

 not, strictly speaking, natural, but they are the con- 

 necting links brought into existence by his association 

 with ourselves. 



We educate him for our purposes. He is trained, 

 along with the other domesticated animals, to be of 

 service to man, and is the reflex of his master; if 

 the owner be of a kind and gentle disposition, so is 

 the dog ; if the former be wild and unbridled in his 

 passions, so also is the latter ; and the more the dog 

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