Excerpt from The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch: Being Parts of the "Lives" Of Plutarch Plutarch believes heartily in the reasoning power of brutes. He loves animals, and his writings are full Of tender allusions to instances of affection and sagacity among them that evidence the Closest acquaintance with their habits and history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.