INTROD UCTOR Y. 9

 had done all he could to deface that image, he became so
 incapable of having God in all his thoughts, that God, in His
 divine mercy, had compassion upon man's miserable incapa-
 city, and, taking upon Him the form of a man, restored the
 lost link in the chain which binds the whole universe to the
 throne of God.
 Children have no difficulty in mentally putting themselves
in the place of animals, or in putting animals in their place.
Some of my readers may be inclined to say this is because the
child is itself a little animal, with its higher faculties unde-
veloped; but none will refuse to admit that the moral and
intellectual faculties are there, however much in abeyance. For
my part, I believe that it is rather from the essential gifts of a
child, its immense power of believing beyond what it sees, its
ready sympathy and boundless trust, than from its defects of
ignorance, that it has the happy capacity of identifying itself
with its pets, and even its toys, either by transferring to them
its own possessions, or by appropriating their experience.
Curious instances of such application occur to me. A little
child was heard gravely rebuking her dog. "If you are so
naughty, Floss, your Uncle Tom and your Aunt Anne"
(bestowing in all simplicity of heart her own relations on
the dog) "will be vexed; you know they will."
 The second instance is given by an accomplished writer in
a recent story, but I am persuaded it is from real life. I
quote from memory.
 "Why are you'crying, Emily? What is the matter?" a
mother asked her little daughter in tears.
 "Oh, mamma! I am not Emily just now," the child
explained through her sobs; "I am the parrot the cat has
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