Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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... insects ; but after consulting with the publishers , and also with Sir John Lubbock , it has seemed to me undesirable to omit these chapters on account of the circumstances here stated . For , on the one hand , the facts will not lose ...
... insects ; but after consulting with the publishers , and also with Sir John Lubbock , it has seemed to me undesirable to omit these chapters on account of the circumstances here stated . For , on the one hand , the facts will not lose ...
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... insect is a safe guide to the inferring of mental states - particularly in view of the fact that in many respects ... insects , I think the most we can confidently assert is that the known facts of human psychology furnish the best ...
... insect is a safe guide to the inferring of mental states - particularly in view of the fact that in many respects ... insects , I think the most we can confidently assert is that the known facts of human psychology furnish the best ...
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... insect may be widely different from those of a man , and yet most probably the nearest conception that we can form of their true nature is that which we form by assimilating them to the pattern of the only mental states with which we ...
... insect may be widely different from those of a man , and yet most probably the nearest conception that we can form of their true nature is that which we form by assimilating them to the pattern of the only mental states with which we ...
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... insects has been so considerably extended , that in here rendering a condensed epitome of our knowledge in this most interesting branch of comparative psychology , it will be found that the chapter is constituted principally of a ...
... insects has been so considerably extended , that in here rendering a condensed epitome of our knowledge in this most interesting branch of comparative psychology , it will be found that the chapter is constituted principally of a ...
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... insects . Tuning - forks and violin notes , shouting , whistling , & c . , were all equally inefficient in producing the slightest influence upon the animals ; and experiments with sensitive flames , microphone , telephone , & c ...
... insects . Tuning - forks and violin notes , shouting , whistling , & c . , were all equally inefficient in producing the slightest influence upon the animals ; and experiments with sensitive flames , microphone , telephone , & c ...
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Page 360 - ... repast. I had not long habituated him to this taste of liberty, before he began to be impatient for the return of the time when he might enjoy it. He would invite me to the garden by drumming upon my knee, and by a look of such expression as it was not possible to misinterpret.
Page 171 - Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London. He has determined precisely the angle required ; and he found, by the most exact mensuration the subject could admit, that it is the very angle in which the three planes in the bottom of the cell of a honeycomb do actually meet.
Page i - ANIMAL LIFE AS AFFECTED BY THE NATURAL CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE.
Page 359 - ... knee. He was ill three days, during which time I nursed him ; kept him apart from his fellows, that they might not molest him (for, like many other wild animals, they persecute one of their own species that is sick) and, by constant care, and trying him with a variety of herbs, restored him to perfect health. No creature...
Page 11 - For my own part, I look upon it as upon the principle of gravitation in bodies, which is not to be explained by any known qualities inherent in the bodies themselves, nor from any laws of mechanism, but, according to the best notions of the greatest philosophers, is an immediate impression from the first mover, and the divine energy acting in the creatures.