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

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Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

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