Do animals actually think, and o they reason as human beings reason? These questions were discussed some time ago by Professor E. Lee Thorndike, of Columbia University. He—said:—Experiments have been made on_ fish, reptiles, birds, and' various animals, notably dogs, cats; mice, and monkeys, to sce how they learned to do certain simple things in order to get food. All these animals manifest fundamentally the same sort of intellectual life. Their learning is after the same general type. What that type is can be seen best from a. concrete instance. A monkey was kept in a large cage. Into the cage was put a box, the door of which was held closed by a wire fastened to a nail, which was inserted in a hole in the top of the box. If the nail was pulled up out of the hole the door could he pulled open. In this box was a piece of banana. The monkey, "attracted by the new object, came down from the top of the cage and fnssedi over the box. He pushed
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