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Show HAVE NOT GIFT OF THOUGHT. Animals Utterly WlthouT Reasoning Powers Says a Writer. Anlmnls have no langunge. Languages Lan-guages are conventional , signs of thought and havo to he learned. Animal Ani-mal sounds are instinctive nnd aro instantly recognized by all tho members mem-bers of a family without learning. Animals Ani-mals may learn to express their wants by tlgns which sympathetic persons can understand, but animals do not think In the way human beings do. They do not learn the alphabet or tho multiplication table, learned horses nnd pigs to tho contrary notwithstanding. not-withstanding. By pntlenco and skill a man can teach. an nnlnial to do things yhlrit express thought; but the thought Is In the mind of tlin man and not In the mind of tho boast, and Is communicated 'by signs which suggest Certain actions. When a pig tells the dlffcrcnca of tho time between Boston nnd Saratoga, ho uses tho cards which In Fotno secret way his master Indicates Indi-cates to him by signs Iyng prnctnud ant' associated with eating. Darwin mndo much of the heredity In pigs. A sow was taught to point, and her offspring off-spring Instinctively pointed at birds; but it is now known thnt it Is a habit of pigs to point. Perhaps thnt sow's ancestors had been pointing for- a thousand generation. Tin now nature stu ly Is giving in, both through Its common sonso and its follies, now data for the study of the animal mind. Boston Christian Register. |