The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-08

of no very great depth for this first les
son, and trains the little ones to hunt flies,
mosquitoes and beetles. The female of the
elder duck gently carries her ducklings
one by one in her beak, escorts them to the
deep water. and teaches them to dive for
fish. When they are tired she glides under
them, takes them on her back, and care
fully carries them to the shore. It is I'M
doubtedly very largely by virtue of instinct
and ancestral education that birds swim or
fly and the mother has only 10 invite them
to the act by her example; but, for more
complete training, the lessons are very use
full, if not necessary. -
After giving examples of many other
cases of parental training by birds, beasts
and even insects, NJ. Letourneau goes on
to say
An this is because, notwithstanding
morphological differences all living
beings have something in common at
the bottom; so that the physiological
psychology of one species may illustrate
that of others, and even of man. In
short, we have good grounds for saying
that all animals, whether vertebrates or
not, but possessing nervous centers, how
ever little developed, are susceptible Of
long enough continued can 10 a certain
extent derange the hereditary tendencies
which we call instructive, and even create
new ones. These perturbations these
metamorphoses of native Tendencies are
observable with special ease in domestic
animals. We have a right to be surprised
that, after having so successfully adapted
the few animals with which we are ac-
quainted to his service and use, man has
L.
theoretically, and it is made probable
by numerous experiments, that there are
few among the superior species that
would resist a methodleal and persistent
training"
In the case of the more intelligent ami.
mails, like the dog, the process of educa-
ton is made easier by centuries of asso.
citation with man. There are other ami
mails that might now be educated and
utilized to great advantage if they had
only the start that is given by such an
Inheritance. The author gives the case
of the monkey as an example. He says
Of it:
IF the larger monkeys had been domes-
ticated by man, and associated with him
for thousands of years as the dog has
been, it would not be unreasonable to sup
pose that they would have been still more
modified, morally and physically, than
that animal. They would probably have
made a closer approach to the inferior
human races; for the dog, different as he
Is from man, has been remarkably hu-
manized by his contact. This mental
humanization of the dog is an extremely
important fact, as showing how power
full education may be; now, IL time enough
is taken 1t may modify the organiza-
ton The domestic dog is evidently de-
scended from one or several CANADIAN
ancestors similar to the wolf, very wild
and not very intelligent, but endowed with
a social instinct. Many centuries have
been required TO change it into the de-
voted companion and worshipper of man
that il Is, to acquire its expressive bark
instead of the VOLTS bowling, and TO as
simulate the many qualities and, capaci-
ties il exhibits so foreign to its nature
It's civilization has not taken place al
at once We still find half wild dogs
among the Australian hordes and other
lower races, that do not know how IN
bark, that have no affectionate relations
with their masters, and are nothing NOR
than selfish auxiliaries in hunting or
fierce sentries OF the camp or village