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.
From Edward Thorndike
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
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.
Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
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.
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.
Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
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