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A few elephants, collected from African zooelogical gardens, and some giraffes, also attracted a great deal of attention, but the horses were the favorites with the crowd.
Prichard made seven, which were reduced by Cuvier to three; viz., Caucasian, Mongolian, Ethiopic. Blumenbach made five, and Pickering eleven. It is the Caucasian variety which has been chiefly distinguished in history, and active in the building-up of civilization. None of the numerous schemes of division, from a zooelogical point of view, however, are satisfactory.
On the other side, there were plenty who eagerly quoted all known instances of zooelogical warfare: all Oriental nations, for instance, used elephants in war, and, no doubt, would gladly use lions and tigers also, but for their extreme carnivorousness, and their painful indifference to the distinction between friend and foe; why not, then, use these dogs, comparatively innocent and gentle creatures?
This animal is about two feet, long and resembles a rat, but having a long prehensile snout and the habits of an ant-eater, it is considered to be a remnant of the early zooelogical type from which diverged both the rodents and the insectivorous animals of the present. The Spaniards introduced the European domestic animals, which immediately began to flourish.
"Would not the brute," asks an able writer in the "Zooelogical Journal," "take a survey of his lower powers, and would he not, as man does, either rightly use or pervert them, at his pleasure?"
"And yet there are other natural divisions which must be acknowledged in a natural zooelogical system; but these are not to be traced so uniformly in all classes as the former, they are, in reality, only limitations of the other kinds of divisions." This chapter must be studied in the original text, the arguments by which its conclusions are supported hardly admitting of brief analysis.
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