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"When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements."
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"The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge."

"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."

"For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals."

"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology."

"Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine."

"To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind."

"There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform."

"The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology."

"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found."
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