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On Instinct and Reason; or, the Intellectual Difference between Man and Animals
In a former essay upon this subject* I endeavoured to show that all preceding writers had failed to establish any line of demarcation between the intellectual faculties of man and animals, and that their denial of reason to the brute was unsupported either by argument or fact. 1 proved that animals have reason differing only in degree, not in kind, from that of man, and that the only intellectu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1875
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/012330a0