Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The North British Review, Vol. 5: February 1846-August 1846
N either can we acquire any knowledge either of the natural or domestic history of the dog from the ancient J ewish writings; and it would even seem that the creature which is now the most useful, and the most cosmopolite of man's conquests from the animal kingdom, and so indispensable to the pastoral people of modern Euro e, Was scarcely known even to the shepherds of the ancient J ewis nations. The term dog is always one of reproach; and this faithful and accommodatin creature, so highly esteemed among ourselves, was despised by the eastern nations of remote antiquity, and is seldom alluded to in the sacred writin 8, unless in illustration of something vile and contemptible. He same feeling prevails in modern times. The dog, says Mr. Spencer, in his Circassia, the faithful friend of man, is eve here in the land of Islamism a complete outcast; every thing e touches becomes im are.
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