Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-29

future. She sat at a table to eat her
meals; she learned to pour milk and
other LIQUID food from a great pitcher
into a cup which she drank; and she
soon learned to quit pouring when the
milk had just reached the brim OF
the cup. She saw a carpenter at work
with his bradawl watching her op-
portunity. she took the awl as the
carpenter laid it down and with 1t
she bored holes in her table. In her
last sickness she seemed to know she
was going to die. She put her arms
about the neck of her keeper of whom
she was very fond, kissed him and
then lay down on her bed; in few
minutes she put out her hand and laid
it in the hand of her keeper, and soon
fell into a sleep from which she never
awoke.
Perhaps the most celebrated at
tempt ever made by philosophy to es-
tablish well-defined lines between the
human and the animal mind is that
part of Locke's Essay Concerning
Human Understanding in which he
concludes that beasts indeed have
ideas but are without mans higher
mental faculty of abstraction.
"Only this week the announcement
was made through The Herald that
the Los Angeles police force had been
greatly strengthened by the addition of
two great dogs of the breed used by
the police Of the city of Paris to hunt
down the most desperate criminals.
These dogs display almost human in
telligenCe; they are not bloodhounds,
they are more; they are literally dog
detectives Among the many wonder
full traits they display is this: They
viii eat nothing, not even the most
tempting meat, from the hand of any
person except that one who daily
feeds them; this is to prevent their
being poisoned by the criminals whom
they are employed to hunt.
"And the great register of emotions
known to the human is found in mor3
or less perfectness in the lower ami
mails. They love and hate they grieve
and rejoice; they respond to kind
treatment and they resent i'll treatment
much as humans do.
1T is only as we come into the
realms Of the moral that we pass into
a world unknown to them. Man is an
animal plus. and the plus carries him
into world the beasts of the field
know not. The physical the mental
and the emotional similarities are
marked enough, but when we pass into
the moral realm we are dealing with
new order. The plus of the human
is his religious instinct. as native t.
him as rock is native to the hills.
"And it is only as men cultivate the
religious instinct that they approach
their highest destinies. This is tru2
not only in the moral realm, but is
true for every field of honest human
endeavor. Take religion out of the
worlds art and what is there left
Where would the great pictures and
the masterpieces of sculpturing be
found if religion were taken out of
the art of the world? Denude the poe
try of the race of its religion and
what would be left? Nothing but the
veriest husk. Take religion out of the
architecture of the world and all the
cathedrals, the temples and affairs
would have to go. Destroy thn potency
of faith in the commerce of the world
and the mighty structure would fall
to pieces like a child's soap bubble on
the nursery floor.
"Wherein shall men look for the
permanency of civilization, of com
merce. of law, of government; where
in shall we look for ultimate art and
culture knowledge and discovery?
Some say we must look for these ulti
mate conceptions of human life in the
threefold ministry to the body-its
feeding, clothing and housing, With
this I most heartily agree, but hold
that this ministry to the body, and all
the brilliant achievements that grow
out of it. have neither rational mean
ing nor ultimate Interpretation except
on the ground that the religious view
of the universe is true; that this world
is personal world and that in full
agreement with this personalism the
great business of the wor'' goes on
the stupendous whole a Whole that
God has nlanned' wherein the moral
will. exalted rules with regal au-
thOrity"