They have knowledge peculiar to their several spheres and sufficient for the under-part they have to act." Let me be free from the delusion that it is possible to raise them above this level, or in other words to add an inch to their mental stature.
I have nothing to forgive Jack after all.

And so in spite of everything Jack was suffered at home and accompanied me again and again in my walks abroad; and there were more blank days, or if not altogether blank, seeing that there was Jack himself to be observed and thought about, they were not the kind of days I had counted on having.

My only consolation was that Jack failed to capture more than one out of every hundred, or perhaps five hundred, of the creatures he hunted, and that I was even able to save a few of these.

But I could not help admiring his tremendous energy and courage, especially in cliff-climbing when we visited the headlands--those stupendous masses and lofty piles of granite which rise like castles built by giants of old.

He would almost make me tremble for his life when, after climbing on to some projecting rock, he would go to the extreme end and look down over it as if it pleased him to watch the big waves break in foam on the black rocks a couple of hundred feet below.