The Corner Cupboard of Facts for Everybody Embracing Facts About I Things Not
The Corner Cupboard of Facts for Everybody Embracing Facts About I Things Not
Robert Kemp Philp
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'' If the junction of the toes ind cates a want of intelligence, pray, then, explain how the amphibious mam- malia, with toes deeply impacted in a fleshy web, are s ) much superior to the rodents in intelligence ?" " Undoubtedly they are, " my friend triumphantly exclaimed; "but you must not overlook one essential circumstance in the study of the relations of the paw with the intelligence, and that is the number of the finger*. The seal, the walrus, and other amphibious mammalia, are certainly ...more intelligent than the rodents ; and ths Tig. 15. superiority is plainly indicated by the number of their fingers, which is five. ! Here, with an air of triumphant pb asure, he counted the five toes, or iiiivei's, as he termed them, of a preserved paddle of a !. ">' that lay upon the table. " Aeeording to your doctrine, then, " I rejoined, pointing to seme hoofs, "the elephant must IK- less intelligent than the seal, and the horse inferior to the cow and other ruminiting animals, which is con- trary to well-known facts.
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