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bloodedness or efficiency of circulation, but also of 

 various psychical characters. The power of profit- 

 ing by experience becomes greater, as does that of 

 distinguishing between objects; and there is most 

 markedly an increase in the intensity of emotion. It 

 has somehow been of advantage, direct or indirect, to 

 birds to acquire a greater capacity for affection, for 

 jealousy, for joy, for fear, for curiosity. In birds 

 the advance on the intellectual side has been less, on 

 the emotional side greater: so that we can study in 

 them a part of the single stream of life where emo- 

 tion, untrammelled by much reason, has the upper 

 hand. 



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