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

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

"This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man."

"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."

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

"Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods."

"The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process."

"It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal."
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