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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…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
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It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully…
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The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental…
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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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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...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the…
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing…
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Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else…
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See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.
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