Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

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So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

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Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

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Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

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Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

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Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

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

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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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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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