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Show Are A iiliu il ii'imiitlouaT l i iiriinitiUs.-i-u'nKi-. Of course there jin-n.. c -"i Uui Hint maLes tiudilTer-L-Ui-r Si ii-m-f nr'-'l l ti h jl iy uTv I Ur.t il i.- nol i i nil nir nili:.i if thni umlnni; rou II j r-.vi.-is-Hint liin'. iiiilliiiiK la. eiiepi jw'rttirliuti..ii.-. n iinnii ri'll nythiny llial w t. nuiv llniik tti-Mi-iiiii) imi. nfter i all, linve iitiv i-xi-l'-ii'-i' :it any nilc, tl ; Jut's m 'i t-xisi ils h s.-' il LK) uitiuinls kjnm- uImiui 'Im iitul lu ilu'V think tlify wf tlu-iii: In In-- litlt-sl txwk Sir ! John l.uliiHH'k iiiiJci l:tkts lu it-II tiuw the j world UpeaiH u uni.iuils. but lu- doesn't ' fiiiL-r inUi tlit- xi?,il,iljiitti)f sujiei-sutiona among diys mid horses, for iiisuitu-a Certainly, itie world dops not uppvar the . Kline U the nut that it dm lo man; und i not quito tlK'sniiii'loilietiog or the horse, ! Bince Hi-.- do ami the horse do not lanii. If we take tlie conclusions of science re-6ectini; re-6ectini; the development of the Intelligence, Intelli-gence, we ought to tx? able to believe that the more intelligent of the lower unimalt have superstitions that correspond in Bonie measure to those of the reost intelligent intel-ligent humiui being?. That many animals reason, draw logicaJ inferences beyond the operation of Instinct, In-stinct, la pretty well Bellied. When a dog or a horse has exhausted all its experience ex-perience in attempting to account for certain phenomena, does it conclude that the thing is supernatural or out of the order of explicable phenomena? Novelists Novel-ists tell us about the amazing fear of dogs and horses ordinarily fearless, when placed under conditions that excite the fear of superstitious persona Are there facts to warrant this? If dogs and horses w.-e ghosts they mu6t bo capable of tho Bimplest form of religious emotion; that is to say, the fear of the inexplicable, which in tbetsavage is regarded by science as the beginning of religion. Dogs have what in science passes for moral sense. They are conscious of wrong doing and practice self restraint." Of course it all grows out of the experience that the doing do-ing of certain things is attended with more pain than the momentary pleasure, but tliiB, science tells us, is the basis of the moral sense. At all events, science is bound to admit the potentiality of superstitions in animals. Milwaukee Sentinel. |