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more specialized as to scent, that he may nose along the 

 track of the rabbit. Some zoologists would have us believe 

 that man would be higher if he had this scent. But it 

 would be of no use to him unless he nosed along the 

 ground in the same way as the hound. How much would 

 our hunters be ennobled by doing that themselves instead 

 of employing dogs to do it ''. 



This process of extreme specialization of the senses 

 was permitted to brutes in order to make them the slaves 

 of man. Like the livery of the coachman, it is a sign, 

 not of elevation but of servility. Such a specialization 

 was arrested at a medium point of develojmient in man, 

 because his higher intellectual faculties would enable 

 him to command the services of brutes, and accomplish 

 his object in a nobler way. This view is still further re- 

 inforced by the important fact that in brutes these fac- 

 ulties are specialized unsymmetrically in extremes. No 

 one brute has at once a higher, and a harmonious de- 

 velopment of them all. But in man, they are specialized 

 moderately, sufficiently, symmetrically, and joined in in- 

 separable conjunction with intellectual faculties, by 

 which he can command all the specialized powers of 

 brutes, and the physical forces of nature. Has man less 

 powerful scent than the hound % He calls a pack of 

 hounds into his service and directs them to do his will. 

 Has he less power of sight than the eagle and the vulture \ 

 His modicum of sight, as reinforced by the inventive ex- 

 ercise of his intellectual faculties, enables him to see the 

 moons of Jupiter, the corona of the sun, or the minute 

 organisms in stagnant water, none of which brutes can see. 

 Is his hearing duller than that of brutes 1 By dominating 

 the physical forces of nature, and making them reinforce 

 his organs of hearing in the telephone, he hears the 

 whisper a thousand miles away. Have then the brutes 

 surpassed him in any of these respects ? If they appear 

 to have done so, as we look only to the incomplete, 

 physical side of being, they certainly fail to show supe- 

 rior rank, even as regards these physical aspects, when 

 the whole being of conjoined faculties are considered. 



I close with a single remark. If man be the acknow- 

 ledged leader of created things, is there any difference 

 between the sexes, in this supremacy ? The old oriental 

 and pagan view, is one of complete subservience of wo- 



