domesticated the various species. You will want to discover how far
animals can be educated and whether their intelligence can ever be
developed into mind. As you progress in this study you will feel the
necessity of understanding their conversation and you will learn what you
can of their language. These tasks will seem of more importance to you
when the lower animals are all reclaimed and become the companions and
friends of man. You will try to discover the particular purpose for which
each species was created, and you will even be led to inquire, by a long
series of experiments, whether they possess the faintest shadow of moral
perceptions.

"Then there is the great subject of plant life. Does the sensitiveness of
plants ever amount to sensibility or feeling? If so, is it a feeling you
are bound to respect? That is, should a wounded and bleeding tree excite
in you even the slightest shade of that sympathy you feel with a
distressed animal? These are inquiries which you doubtless think of little
moment now, but we have spent many years pursuing them.

"These are only a few faint indications of the multitude of questions
which lie before you for study. In every investigation which you follow,
whether connected with the mysteries of your own complex being or with the
unexplored depths of creation around you, a chief source of interest will
be the constant discovery of a perfect adaptation in the works of God. Of
course you know something of it already, but you will never cease to
wonder at the unfolding of this truth, as you come to realize more and
more fully that creation is one, and is moved and ruled by one
intelligence.

"Oh, do not imagine that in the ages to come there will be nothing to make
life interesting. As your civilization advances and you are released