MENTAL POWERS. 
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Cu. 
«\ II. 
' Particular monkey would turn out a good actor, lie 
i- s " eiec l that it all depended on their power of atten- 
cn - If when he was talking and explaining anything- 
a ni °nkey, its attention was easily distracted, as by 
to 
In ' i° n or other trifling object, the case was 
peless. If ] ie tried by punishment to make an in- 
] ontive monkey act, it turned sulky. On the other 
' lir > a monkey which carefully attended to him could 
be trained. 
18 almost superfluous to state that animals have 
at ti en ^ Memories for persons and places. A baboon 
g. . e Cape of Good Hope, as I have been informed by 
^^rew Smith, recognised him with joy after an 
a Ld tlCe "* uo mon tbs. I had a dog who was savage 
men aVeiSC t0 !| P strangers, and I purposely tried his 
Went° 1 ^ a ^ ei an absence of five years and two days. I 
him Ueur stable where he lived, and shouted to 
b followed me out walking and obeyed me, 
stantl' 1 monnor > bo showed no joy, but in- 
hefcn ' V aS ^ ^ b ac ^ parted with him only lmlf-an-hour 
year.^'i ^ train of old associations, dormant during five 
mf i ’ 1 , ^bus been instantaneously awakened in his 
I'ccoV . bb r en ants, as 1’. Huber la has clearly shewn, 
m, ° niSe d their fellow-ants belonging to the same eom- 
Can 1 y after a separation of four months. Animals 
tir ? rtain ly by some means judge of the intervals of 
of 
rpi 1UL4U1 tJJ-I li tJVtJLLlto. 
10 Imagination is one of the highest prerogatives- 
tlie^m' tly this faculty he unites, independently of 
bant' 1 ' |' Jliner images and ideas, and thus creates bril- 
ai lvs,' ■ « who must reflect whether he shall make a 
novel results. A poet, as Jean Paul Hick ter 
13 (ktr™ des F °unnis,’ 1610, p. 150. 
i pp pg 22 ^ r ' Maudsley’s ‘ Physiology and Pathology of Mil 
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