Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1900-08-29
THE SENSE OF SMELL.
coNrRASTED With SIGHT IT "a
SlNeUlARLY UkDIScRIMINATINo.

w "Sen ouI Auman thoughts and fee
{, ings-thoughts more than feelings-ap
q. those OF the lower animals. One hear
Is eommonplaces OF the possibility Of a,
IA extra sense, and 30 on, often enough
- but the entire difference of mental bssi
- that must exist between us and this unta
: dogs and horses which we fancy we nm
Q herstand, seems hardly ever to be con
J. eeived.
Q In one direction all animals ara aIik.
ALI dread death and physical injury,
all eagerly seek and accept suitable
food; all have, in their s,rlier wears.
that tendency to release the serious
business OF after-life which we call
play.
These common needs and inclinations
furnish q mental substratum, that
roughly all may comprehend; but int,
its crude and almost formless communi.
cations, what an infinite amount of our.
selves we are inclined to read in, with.
out further Justification
The human world is q world OF n;c
lures; our memories are siQht.ima0e.
hat we raise from their sleep in our
brains for o little while.
But since the days OF Bishop Berke.
ley, We have come to perceive nos.
and more distinctly. that the eye sees
80 clearly, not by its own virtue, but az
the result OF the education afforded II
by our hands. At first the world Of The
child must be fat confusion OF sbanes
which 1t learns to interpret by the move.
ment OF its hands over the forms Il sees
The vision is, at first, without dentL
without relief, without modelling or at.
mosphere.
Those born blind, who at a later ao.
nave been restored to their sight by
nedical skill, and who conseouently
nave not learned to connect sight ana
touch impressions, fancied all the tbinos
thew saw touched their eyes. IndeeI
it is one of the elementary TEACHINGS 81
psychology, that our perception of spac.
IN our vision of the world comes to M
through our fingers.
Inc lion has no fingers neither do
me cat, the dog and the horse possess
.uese necessary media to nice discrim.
nation OF shapes and position. The
horse With its digits imprisoned in
horny hoof. is IN a particularly had
case. 1t Is impossible " believe that
the painting on tho eye of these crea.
.utes is interpreted by them with any.
Ining ike the delicacy or truth that we
can attribute to what we see. Moreover
certain yellow spot of distinct Wis.
on, common to us and the apes, isab.
tent from their eyes.
Inc horse frequently seems to use hi,
yes independently OF each other. I'm.
'oubtedly the majority OF animals do
o. Now, then, can we imagine in !,
!eir case, Tor moment, such q single G
icture OF world as we, in our waking Ii
loments, look out uponp
A few simple experiments with a cat Q
III convince any one that she can NOT II
stlnguish hand with empty fingers II
ED toward her from one containi,o
y not too odoriferous edible. And vIn;e
g animal may not, and in all prob,
nifty does not, refer its world IN
aced picture and think in visible i'm. fir
es as we do, there is no doubt that in to,
aer respects its sensations may have VII
iennltion OF mental value quite nm. tor
own TO the equivalent sense in our. pre-
VeS.> We may "carry faces to tina Sta
lvens, and stalk about the temno. sys
y lords of the world, but for ALI that OF
noses are poor things. oou
Inc human nose Is an apolopetis tba
lple compared with the magnificent elm
an OF the horse or dog. Oui senss crea
mel is, when contrasted with ON, of {
II and hearing, singularly undiscrim. the
ing we can arrange sounds into cnil'
es-we know e is between G and F. Ihis
appreciate octaves and harmonies. I "a I
LARRY we can put the colors into or. The
deciie upon the amount OF blue in incre
lrple, and get almost to emotion ai is. OF
sight OF white star in the blue ofa from
mer twilight, or Of the amber SIM. bette
glinting between the blades OF a goo
3. stage
1t this serial arrangement. this sort.
ND selective choice, is entirely be.
our rudimentary senses of smell. with
the idea OF the scent OF the violet are {
rich harmony, or the suggestion blood
Ihe trying OF onions is discord. or sudde
patchonli and the new-mown hay poison
pleasant things in different timer then
eys, sounds utter nonsense. Ouy vaiue
are entirely too dull to effect TIA a 81, ~
sls necessary before scents can h, 9 wU ~ ~
ooinP ieA' ana sorted expires
'combined 30 as to be made On ns with n
pleasure. ' -
with the ami nails wo have named
at is different Half the beod "a Co.,
20 or adult dog is nose. It Is Bailie
Die, therefore, that the dogs mind secure
ed essentially on impressions OF buttons
lie perceives the crafty Ulysses twenty
h all DISCUSSES that hide him portrait
uman detection, shifts him and IL me me tnr O
d. me ~
one who has watched lost doc or noro
street must, or at least ought to.
that the animal has only The RWHEl
idea of what its adored master bv rbeuu
Ike. Only on that supposition that ORG,
movements be understood Tbs electric v
Is looking for smell image moment
nose; and sense with such an. but get ID
power as the dogs olfactory Send 50 t
ons exhibit, must certainly be YORK, an
OF harmonic and discordant an potsies'
mt and affects. ny Irst OK
ERE o,r 600, ~, tricity, bu
ers OF realization. How the
'rnal paints itself on the mind
we can speculate, but not A WON
But that dogs thought and some, nev
lind run on different lines, and if she tax
: phases entirely outside Ask your
20 our experience Is beyond