There are, however, bounds beyond which the most intelligent dog cannot pass; and why?--the anatomy of his mind is different from that of man. His senses, that of touch excepted, are as acute as those of man, some far more so, but his reasoning powers are confined within a small circle. For example, education does not really elevate the dog over the wild packs of his own species--it rather rivets the chain which binds him to man as his lord; it enfeebles his instinct, and renders him at once more dependent and more useful; it places him in many different, and in a certain sense, unnatural spheres of action; it renders him a shepherd, a guard, a hunter, but it adds not positively to his information; he has no ideas of the beautiful or the sublime--of truth, of virtue, and vice--of humanity, pity, charity; he reflects not that death is his doom, even though he sees from time to time his companions expiring around him. It is, in fact, first, because the most elevated ideas or reasonings of the dog are merely simple, and those within a narrow compass; and, secondly, because the dog is utterly incapable of forming any abstract idea that education cannot elevate it above itself. It has not man's mental anatomy. The rudest savage can devise the bow, and the spear, and various other implements; he can fashion them because he has hands, but his hands are only the servants of his mind; had not his mind been what it is, his bodily organization would have been otherwise, but still in just harmony. In the savage lie the dormant germs of lofty intellect, and in his line, at some future generation, may a Milton, a Shakspere, a Newton, arise; sage poets, statesmen, and philanthropists, men of whom England boasts--England, whose children are the descendants of a semi-barbaric horde, which spread ruin in its westward progress. But what the dog was in the earliest ages, what it was in the times of classic history, that it continues to be; on the contrary, man can emerge from a savage to a civilized state; acquire new wants and supply them; improve upon first principles, and take step after step in the pursuit of knowledge; add improvement to improvement; begin by building a frail coracle, and then launch his steam-ship on the water--begin by erecting a low kraal, and then erect the palace of Cæsar, or the temple of Athens.