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lack the analytical faculty in the perennial flow of 

 their perceptions ; the actual and inanimate thing is 

 presented to them only by the intrinsic, peculiar, 

 personal, and psychical quality of the animal itself. 



If form, and characteristic and deliberate action, 

 are wanting to the substances and phenomena of 

 inanimate nature, qualities which more readily 

 arouse in animals the idea of a subject resembling 

 and analogous to themselves, yet there always remains 

 the apprehension of some sort of form in which not 

 distinguished from the others by reflex action the in- 

 ward faculty of sensation and emotion is repeated and 

 impersonated by the perceiving animal. Thus every 

 form, every object, every external phenomenon becomes 

 vivified and animated by the intrinsic consciousness 

 and personal psychical faculty of the animal itself. 

 Every object, fact, and phenomenon of nature will not 

 merely appear to him as the real object which it is, 

 but he will necessarily perceive it as a living and 

 deliberating power, capable of affecting him agreeably 

 or injuriously. 



Every one is aware of the jealous, suspicious 

 nature of animals, and that they are not only in- 

 quisitive about other animals, but about every 

 material object which they see unexpectedly, which 

 moves in an unusual way, or which interferes with 

 or injures them. 



It must have been often observed how they turn 

 against any object which has chanced to hurt them, 



