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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, Borrow, 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 begot 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 
cold. Pliny relates that one of the elephants of Antiochus, 
having been deprived of his silver ornaments for refusing to 
