. A book of mortals ; being a record of the good deeds and good qualities of what humanity is pleased to call the lower animals. Animal intelligence; Animals, Folklore. FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY. E come back to the virtues, but we have left the vices behind ; sure sign that Faith, Hope, and Charity pass from dull earth to the ether of pure ethics. All we can do then for our fellow mortals is to point out, appealingly or dogmatically as bias bids us, the slender grounds on which any comparison can be made. For Faith and Hope such grounds are slender indeed. Yet there is trust and to spare in the


. A book of mortals ; being a record of the good deeds and good qualities of what humanity is pleased to call the lower animals. Animal intelligence; Animals, Folklore. FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY. E come back to the virtues, but we have left the vices behind ; sure sign that Faith, Hope, and Charity pass from dull earth to the ether of pure ethics. All we can do then for our fellow mortals is to point out, appealingly or dogmatically as bias bids us, the slender grounds on which any comparison can be made. For Faith and Hope such grounds are slender indeed. Yet there is trust and to spare in the eyes of many a tamed creature of the wilds. Surely nothing is more provocative of humility in man than the undoubted fact that it is far easier with a few exceptions to induce perfect trust of humanity in an absolutely wild young creature than it is in the young of parents who for generations have been domes- ticated or semi-domesticated. Those who have a lift- experience of rearing by hand all kinds of creatures know this of a certainty. A young calf is more distrustful than a a young deer, and young pheasants will croon into the empty hand and sleep there when chickens will at best be enticed thither by food. Dogs and cats are different, in that—taken young enough. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Steel, Flora Annie Webster, 1847-1929. London : W. Heinemann


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