Feeling' and sense in Brutes.

Waipawa Mail, Volume X, Issue 1034, 15 January 1887, Page 3

Feeling' and sense in Brutes.

The lower animals, like man, says Mr Darwin, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, etc., when playing together like our own children. He describes them as subject to terror and suspicion, to courage and timidity, to anger and love, to jealousy and shame, etc. He might add much more in his premises. Thus he might consider that all affections, emotions, all perceptions, energies and activity, which by any possibility matter can be raised to in this universe, all this should by every right be attributed to animated organic matter: and this is the grade of the animal, brute creation. Hence animals see, hc&r, touch, taste, smell, with their exterior senses, l»y which their or ganisin leads the “ life of relation” with the outer world. Thus the beast instinctively seeks things useful and flies things hurtful. The inexperienced lamb runs away from a hurtful wolf, and the bird gathers straw as useful for building its nest.