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Manis the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal. In truth, manis incurably foolish. Simple things whichother animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hourI thought themto be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I wasable to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves and finally a monkey. They lived together in peace, even affectionately.

Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk fromthe wilds of Arkansas: a Buddhist from China: a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals wasall right, but in the other there was but a chaos of
gory odds and ends of turbans and plaids and bones and flesh-not a specimenleft alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed ona theological detail and carried the matter to a Highercourt.

Question 196

The writer ........... the view that manis a reasoning animal


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