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Excerpt from Dog Stories From the Spectator: Being Anecdotes of the Intelligence, Reasoning Power
Incidence or to hallucination. As far as I can see, the evidence shows that dogs do understand a good deal of human speech, though how they learn it remains a mystery. But in reality, and in practice, everyone admits this ability to understand human speech in the dog, though strenu ous protests in the name of common-sense are made the moment anyone ventures to face the fact and put it boldly forward. Nobody doubts that a dog knows his own name and answers to it when called. But what is this but understanding human speech? If every dog can do this, why should not some dogs of exceptional quick ness learn more than the one word, and so get a wider knowledge of human speech? Surely it is only the first word that matters. After that, knowing the whole dictionary is only a matter of degree. But though dogs seem able to understand our language, it is very curious to notice how utterly we fail to understand theirs. This point has been touched on by that able and eminent judge of the Queen's Bench Division, Sir Henryiv preface TO the second edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
