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process would repeat itself a second and a third time, till, connected with the desired result, it would become direct and constant. What shall be said of the reasoning of the dog who repeatedly suffered from such a form of depredation? It matters little whether the above instances are true, others like them are true, and admit of similar explanation. The fear and caution of a dog when he has committed an offence, the cunning and skill of a fox, the pliancy of a horse, are not surprising, when we consider their quick senses, sharp appetites, retentive memories, protracted, varied, and severely enforced experience, and inherited tendencies. Knowledge, moreover, is communicable between animals by inheritance and by transfer. The obedience, docility and training of the horse are readily imparted to his yoke-fellow, and the fear and sagacity of a fox help to awaken like qualities in his companion.

The practical value of the above conclusions is very great, in teaching us how to handle, and how to estimate, brute life; and still more in establishing a fitting barrier between it and rational life. If this difference exists between them, then is man unapproachable by the animal. He stands on another platform of being. It is not an accident of physical structure, the absence of language, less fortunate or less protracted development, that divide the two; but entirely new endowments, bringing with them a new and exalted sphere of being. Man shares consciousness, a perception and retention of external events, with the animal; but not his intuitions of the invisible, nor his rational apprehension and government of action, nor his moral and spiritual endowments.