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Rh when and where we are forced to maintain our own competitive position.

Until we have fathomed that great problem, the evolution of the mind, we have no right to he dogmatic in our assertions that animals cannot understand and even think. What may be their attitude towards us and our boasted civilisation? There is sound common sense in Edward Carpenter's allegorical lines "Squinancy-wort":