![]() ![]() “I've just come to my room, Livy darling, I guess this was the memorable night of my life. Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.” When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh-not a specimen left alive. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Next a Turk from Constantinople a Greek Christian from Crete an Armenian a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas a Buddhist from China a Brahman from Benares. Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. They lived together in peace even affectionately. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. ![]() Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal. ![]()
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