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• If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
• So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
• It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully…
• The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental…
• Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
• Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
• Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
• In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that…

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