"The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations."

Society, Complexity, Evolution, Race

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"The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations."

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

Intelligence

"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."

Knowledge

"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."

Nature

"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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"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."

Nature

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

Development

"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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"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."

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"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."

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