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LIFE, IN ITS HIGHER FORMS. 



ourselves, we call moral feelings or affections, whether 

 good or bad; but, perhaps, all are not cognisant of the 

 extent of the category. We could readily cite anecdotes 

 to prove that love, hatred, jealousy, gratitude, pity, sym- 

 pathy, faithfulness, obedience, sorrow, joy, pride, revenge, 

 and even conscience of guilt, are attributes of the bestial, 

 no less than of the human soul. Some of these are too 

 commonly witnessed to need illustration, but we shall cite 

 a few examples. 



The affection of the Dog for his human friend is so 

 fervent, so tender, that it is scarcely surprising that it should 

 sometimes beget that horrid accompaniment — jealousy, 

 with which in our nobler bosoms it is so often associated. 

 Nor is it only of their own species that Dogs are jealous; 

 any intruder that appears to share the regard which they 

 had been accustomed to consider exclusively their own, 

 becomes an object of fierce hatred. M. Blaze mentions a 

 Dog which died of consumption, because its mistress re- 

 ceived home an infant that had been put out to nurse. 

 He growled whenever he saw her kiss the child. In 1841, 

 a bull-dog in Paris flew upon and killed a child of six years 

 old, in the arms of his mother; the only reason for this 

 ferocity being that the little fellow had been in the habit 

 of caressing another Dog in the sight of the savage animal, 

 which had always, before this, been kept chained. 



As to pride, it is well known in the East that the 

 Elephant receives pleasure from his gorgeous trappings, 

 and moves with a more stately step, and with manifest 

 appreciation of his honours, when bedizened in scarlet and 

 gold. Pliny relates that one of the elephants of Antiochus, 

 having been deprived of his silver ornaments for refusing to 



