Do not you listen to them.

That is the wisdom of this world, which the flesh teaches the animals; and those who follow it, like the animals, will perish.

Such men are not even as wise as Sweep the retriever.
Not as wise as Sweep?
Not they.

Sweep will not take away Victor's bone, though he is ten times as big as Victor, and could kill him in a moment; and when he catches a rabbit, does he eat it himself?
Of course not; he brings it and lays it down at our feet.
Because he likes better to do his duty, and be praised for it, than to eat the rabbit, dearly as he longs to eat it.
But he is only an animal.

Who taught him to be generous, and dutiful, and faithful?
Who, indeed! Not we, you know that, for he has grown up with us since a puppy.