If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.
When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.
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.
An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.