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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So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.
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Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.
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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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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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From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
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