THE DOG : POLICE OFFICER. 
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tlieir dogs, whom they have taught to venerate their institutions. 
The dog of the thief will then profess, on matters of public order 
and commerce, principles diametrically opposite to those of the 
magistrate's dog. The dog discusses no questions of right, his 
duty is to obey and keep quiet ; he obeys without murmuring. 
The dog is the finest conquest ever made by man. He is the first 
element of human progress. Without the dog, man would have 
been condemned to vegetate eternally in the limbos of the savage 
state. It is the dog that causes society to pass from the savage 
to the patriarchal state, by giving him the herd. Without the 
dog, no herd ; without the herd, no assured subsistence, no leg of 
mutton nor roast beef at will, no wool, no time to spare, no as- 
tronomical observations, no science, no arts. It is the dog who 
gives man these opportunities. The East is the cradle of civiliza- 
tion, because the East is the country of the dog. Take the dog 
from Asia, and Asia is no more than America ; the Roman, the 
Greek, the Egyptian, the Chinese, than the tribes of the Western 
Continent. (Is not Peru a brilliant exception ?) To what, indeed, 
are limited all the efforts of intelligence, all the labors of the 
Mohican, who can live only by the chase ? To study the great 
art of tracking out and of following by the scent the game or the 
enemy. Now a young hound knows more of this difficult science 
after six months’ studies, than the most skillful savage in forty 
years of practice. The indigenous races of the East who had the 
dog, have then been dispensed with giving themselves up to the 
painful labors whicli absorbed all the time and all the faculties of 
the red'skins. They have had time to spare, and they could em- 
ploy it in creating industry. Here is the origin of arts and trades, 
the difference betvreen the old and new continents. Historians 
have written thousands of volumes upon this grave question with- 
out having discovered this very simple truth, and brave anatomists 
continue to dissect American skulls, to seek in them the cause of 
the inferiority of this race, without suspecting that they are a 
hundred leagues from the solution of the problem. 
By the side of this so new and humorous anthropological solu- 
tion, comes another observation equally peculiar to myself, it is 
that anthropophagy is an evil endemic in the countries disinherited 
