2l8 MAN, THE ANIMAL 



Man, — The Animal which clearly separates 

 him from the animals? It is hardly practicable 

 to state this difference in a word or phrase such 

 as "the mind of man," "Man's esthetic or ethical 

 sense" because there is such a wide range of 

 opinion among psychological and philosophical 

 scholars as to the definition when such expressions 

 are applied to animals and then applied to man. 

 That the distinction between man and animals is 

 clearly evident few will deny although it is very 

 difficult to agree on terms that shall properly de- 

 scribe this difference. Much of the writing of 

 the past fifty years is based on the philosophical 

 assumption of the purposefulness of man and the 

 utilitarian relation of everything else to his uses. 

 If one accepts this postulate, then it is easy to 

 separate those qualities in man which support 

 such a premise and designate them as distinctive. 

 On the other hand, if one employs the scientific 

 method and looks for the source of those qualities 

 which are so evident in the mind of man, then he 

 can draw no such sharp distinctions. It is in this 

 latter sense that the following paragraphs are 

 written. 



Man gains his information of the external 

 world through sense organs inferior in acuteness 

 and range to those found in some of the animals. 

 He cannot see as well as the soaring hawk as it 

 seeks its food by day or the silently flying owl by 



