The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-07

gscity OF the animal may, he remarks
be partly due to the long life, and con-
sequently varied experience of the in
dividual animal, but on the other hand,
there is the adverse influence OF the
fact that there can be little or no
heredity in its requirements. The dog
has the inheritance of many genera
tions. The elephant learns everything
for himself, and should be as much at
disadvantage as New Guinea negro,
matched with the descendant of line of
cultivated Europeans or Americans. Un-
der these circumstances, every anecdote
of his sagacity acquires multiplied sig
nificance. The story which Mr.. Wilson
tells of Lizzie, an elephant belonging to
Wombwell's menagerie, is very striking.
In 1874 the menagerie visited Tenbury,
and Lizzie, who had drunk quantity of
cold water when heated by walking Gust
as "human" might have done), was at
tackled by spssms, and treated by Mr..
Turley, a local chemist. He applied
large blister to the side, and relieved the
pain. Five years afterward the menagerie
came round again, and Lizzie recognized
her medical adviser as he stood in the shop
door, stepped out of the ranks, and greet
ed him by placing her trunk round his
hand. She even drew his attention to the
side where the blister had been applied.
Two years afterward the menagerie came
again. This time Lizzie lifted her friend
in very gentle manner from the ground.
She had, it seemed, been led to form
still higher opinion of his merits as
doctor, and even generally to prefer phys
ic to surgery. A veterinary surgeon had
been called in to prescribe for another
ailment, and had used the lancet Ac-
cordingly, she drew Mr.. Turkeys atten-
ton to the limb which had been lanced,
and did her best to show how much she
preferred his milder treatment.
Such stories, sometimes, it must be
owned, testifying to feeling of revenge
not less enduring than was Lizzie's graf
itude, might be multiplied indefinitely.
They suggest question which, standing
as it does quite apart from the physiology
cal arguments for evolution, may be
worth considering. II social order, NOR
atty, memory, prudence, readiness of re-
source "a remarkable characteristic of the
elephant) are evolved out of protopasm,
and find their full development in man,
how is it that each of these faculties,
taken separately, seems to have had an
other distinct line of it's own which has
not ended in man? If monkeys are next
to man in the order of living things, as
they are certainly ikest him in shape,
should we not expect to find them living
in communities, individual members of
which should possess the various mental
and moral qualities in a degree which
should approximate to what is to be seen
in man? We see nothing of the kind.
The bee and the ant have their elaborate
ly organized commonwealth; the dog
has fidelity and, perhaps we may cay,
conscience; the elephant, memory and
gratitude; and other creatures various
qualities, mental and moral, in various
degrees. But the combination of these
things, especially that combination of So
cial and individual faculties which would
seriously impugn mans distinctive SUI
periority, is not to be seen. - London
Spectator.