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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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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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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So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.
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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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The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
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