He also thought of farm animals and other beasts of burden, who plod along a narrow course and never go anywhere. “I have often wondered if a horse driving a saw-mill had any mental queries as to why he tramped over his endless plank, and what on earth there was accomplished by his so doing. The saw was generally out of his sight, he perceived no work accomplished, and ended his day in identically the same place at which he began it. And, as far as equine judgment could forecast, he would do the same thing tomorrow, and every other day thereafter. If that horse had reasoning faculties, I pity
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