Antipathy displayed by Orientals towards the Dog, and manifested throughout the Scriptures--Contrast between European and Oriental Dogs--Habits of the Dogs of Palestine--The City Dogs and their singular organization--The herdsman's Dog--Various passages of Scripture--Dogs and the crumbs--their numbers--Signor Pierotti's experience of the Dogs--Possibility of their perfect domestication--The peculiar humiliation of Lazarus--Voracity of the Wild Dogs--The fate of Ahab and Jezebel--Anecdote of a volunteer Watch-dog--Innate affection of the Dog towards mankind--Peculiar local Instinct of the Oriental Dog--Albert Smith's account of the Dogs at Constantinople--The Dervish and his Dogs--The Greyhound--Uncertainty of the word. Scarcely changed by the lapse of centuries, the Oriental of the present day retains most of the peculiarities which distinguished him throughout the long series of years during which the books of sacred Scripture were given to the world. In many of these characteristics he differs essentially from Europeans of the present day, and exhibits a tone of mind which seems to be not merely owing to education, but to be innate and inherent in the race. One of these remarkable characteristics is the strange loathing with which he regards the Dog. In all other parts of the world, the Dog is one of the most cherished and valued of animals, but among those people whom we popularly class under the name of Orientals, the Dog is detested and despised. As the sacred books were given to the world through the mediumship of Orientals, we find that this feeling towards the Dog is manifested whenever the animal is mentioned; and whether we turn to the books of the Law, the splendid poetry of the Psalms and the book of Job, the prophetical or the historical portions of the Old Testament, we find the name of the Dog repeatedly mentioned; and in every case in connexion with some repulsive idea. If we turn from the Old to the New Testament, we find the same idea manifested, whether in the Gospels, the Epistles, or the Revelation.