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.
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Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
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For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
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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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From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
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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.
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