There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man.
--Edgar Allen Poe--
(Grover title page)
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Framed thy fearful symmetry?
--William Blake--
(Grover 130)
Grover, Edwin Osgood. The Animal Lover's Knapsack. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1929.
Atlantic Monthly, February, 1877 "Studies of Animal Nature":
"If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present" (Sanborn 9).
George Eliot:"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment" (Sanborn 19).
Sanborn, Kate. My Literary Zoo. New York: Appleton, 1896.