Ermete Pierotti, Customs and Traditions of Palestine Illustrating the Manners of the Ancient Hebrews, Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, 1864. p.2:’If any one, disposed to attribute to animals the possession of reason rather than instinct, were to travel through the length and breadth of Palestine, he would certainly find many arguments in favour of his theory, and perhaps would even come to the conclusion (not far from the truth) that the brutes were more intelligent than the men. I at least could not contradict him, as I have formd nearly the same opinion, after an intimate acquaintance with both the one and the other, during several years.’
