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The Industries of Animals, etc

"I wish to speak of the manners of animals; the facts regarding them are of sufficient interest if we consider them one by one, and they become much more interesting when we attempt to show the close way in which they are bound together. Volumes would not suffice to exhaust the subject; but if the entire task is too considerable, I may at least hope to accomplish a part of it by treating of those facts which may be brought together under the common title of Animal Industries. In a more or less perfect degree we find the same industries among animals generally. In order to make just comparisons, we ought especially to consider the methods of those who are not endowed with specially appropriated organs, for in this case their task is rendered too simple. A reflex maybe so powerful as to be transmitted by heredity to the descendants; it then becomes an instinct. Thus by its nature instinct does not differ from intelligence, but is intimately connected with it by a chain of which all the links may be counted"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

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