Chapter XV
Reading edition
The Crab and the Dainty Beggar.
'In taking a review of most, if not all the actions of the animal world, it must be obvious that, whether we allow them reason or not, the actions themselves comprehend those elements of reason, so to speak, which we commonly refer to rational beings, so that if the same actions had been done by our fellow-creatures, we should have ascribed them without hesitation to motives and feelings worthy of a rational nature.'—Schleider.
'All things are bigge with jest; nothing that's plain But may be wittie, if thou hast the vein.'—George Herbert.