Art and Science 



whether anything outside the window could 

 do her good or harm had long since been 

 settled by her in the negative, and she was 

 not going to reopen it; she simply cut us 

 dead, and though her annoyance was so great 

 that she was manifestly ready to lay the blame 

 on anybody or anything with or without 

 reason, and though she must have perfectly 

 well known that we were watching the whole 

 affair with amusement, she never either asked 

 us if we had happened to see such a thing as 

 a fly go down our way lately, or accused us of 

 having taken it from her both of which ideas 

 she would, I am confident, have been very 

 well able to convey to us if she had been so 

 minded. 



Now what are thought and reason if the pro- 

 cesses that were going through this cat's mind 

 were not both one and the other ? It would 

 be childish to suppose that the cat thought in 

 words of its own, or in anything like words. 

 Its thinking was probably conducted through 

 the instrumentality of a series of mental 

 images. We so habitually think in words 



ourselves that we find it difficult to realise 



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