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others, we realize that the student of animal behavior must 

 ever be on his guard against making faulty ejects; yet, when 

 confronted with abundant confirmatory evidence, to refuse 



to ascribe a certain psychic trait to an animal merely be- 

 cause it is not a human being seems to us as great an an- 

 thropomorphism as those of which the older comparative 

 psychologists were guilty. 



pomorphic,' that is to say egocentric term, not only to what concerns 

 animals, but also to all other men. Indeed by supposing that other men 

 have the same sensations as ourselves we attribute to them, without 

 exact proof, our own subjectivism. If we wish to renounce it con- 

 sistently. . . . we could no longer say 'my wife has a headache.' We 

 should have to say : 'This animal machine which I believe to be my 

 wife makes certain facial contortions and emits certain sonorous articu- 

 lations which correspond to those which I emit when I have a head- 

 ache. It may therefore be possible that she may have analogous 

 sensations to mine in like cases, but I have not a right to call them 

 headache.' "-Forel. 



