"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."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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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."

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"The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous."

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"Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature."

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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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