"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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"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

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"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."

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"Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man."

Science

"On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character."

Life

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

Intelligence

"Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals."

Intelligence

"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."

Nature

"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."

Food

"Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable."

Psychology

"The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare."

Life

"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."

Character

"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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