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THE MEMOIRS OF A CAT
subtlety of our general sensations and of the acuteness of instinct. All these and a great variety of other phenomena of animal life are explained by modern physiology.
Take for instance the brain--the seat of intelligence. The difference between my brain and that of man is not qualitative, but only quantitative. Mine is sinaller, though not necessarily in proportion to the size of the skull. If my head were as large as the average human hcad, my brain would have been perhaps larger proportionately. While the disparity in size is relative, structurally and functionally there is no difference. Intelligence is the sum total of the impressions made upon the brain by the environments. These impressions are reccived through the intermediary of the sense organs. I am more sensitive, not only as regards sight, but practically in every respect, than man. That is to say, my store of impressions is not poorer than man's. Why, then, should I be considered less intelligent?
Animals lower than man are supposed to be unable to think. This supposition is the result of man's vanity. Simply because we cannot express our thoughts through a co-ordinated system of articulated sounds, accessible to limited human understanding, man characteristically makes capital out of his ignorance and lays sole claim to the spiritual property of thought. Thinking, however,
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