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IN the article on animal intelligence (NATURE, vol. xxvi. p. 523), Mr. Morgan seems to me to have inverted the real process in the case of what he calls “isolation,” for he says: “I believe such abstract ideas to be impossible for the brute. I believe them to be the outcome of the use of language.” The process of abstraction here alluded to is the conception of a quality apart from the things that possess that quality, as whiteness or edibility.
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HENSLOW, G. Animal Intelligence. Nature 26, 573–574 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026573d0
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