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

Animals, Man, Race

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

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"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."

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