Animal IntelligenceD. Appleton, 1884 - 520 pages |
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... regard them merely as facts in Nature , have at least as great a claim to accurate classification as those phenomena of structure which constitute the sub- ject - matter of Comparative Anatomy . Leaving aside , therefore , the ...
... regard them merely as facts in Nature , have at least as great a claim to accurate classification as those phenomena of structure which constitute the sub- ject - matter of Comparative Anatomy . Leaving aside , therefore , the ...
Page viii
... regard only those facts which stood upon the authority of observers well known as com- petent ; but I soon found that this principle constituted much too close a mesh . Where one of my objects was to determine the upper limit of ...
... regard only those facts which stood upon the authority of observers well known as com- petent ; but I soon found that this principle constituted much too close a mesh . Where one of my objects was to determine the upper limit of ...
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... regard the flowing of a river or the blowing of the wind . Why ? First , because the objects are too remote in kind from my own organism to admit of my drawing any reasonable analogy between them and it ; and , secondly , because the ...
... regard the flowing of a river or the blowing of the wind . Why ? First , because the objects are too remote in kind from my own organism to admit of my drawing any reasonable analogy between them and it ; and , secondly , because the ...
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... regard it as fixing only the upper limit of non - mental action ; I shall never regard it as fixing the lower limit of mental action . For it is clear that long before mind has advanced sufficiently far in the scale of development to ...
... regard it as fixing only the upper limit of non - mental action ; I shall never regard it as fixing the lower limit of mental action . For it is clear that long before mind has advanced sufficiently far in the scale of development to ...
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... regard to the main divisions of mental operation , in order to define closely the meanings which I shall attach to certain terms relating to these divisions , and the use of which I cannot . avoid . The terms sensation , perception ...
... regard to the main divisions of mental operation , in order to define closely the meanings which I shall attach to certain terms relating to these divisions , and the use of which I cannot . avoid . The terms sensation , perception ...
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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.