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13.00 Failed. 



9.30 Succeeded. 



1.40 



.50 



15.00 



6.00 Failed. 



14.00 Succeeded. 

 20.00 Failed. 

 4.30 Succeeded. 

 20.00 Failed. 

 20.00 

 15.00 



60.00 



No. 1. 13.00 Failed. No. 6. 17.50 Succeeded. 



3.30 

 9.00 

 2.10 

 1.45 

 1.55 

 13.00 



5.00 



2.30 

 15.00 

 10.00 Failed. 



5.00 Succeeded. 

 15.00 Failed. 



10.00 

 10.00 " 



The figures in the columns represent the time (in 

 minutes and seconds) the animal was in the box be- 

 fore being taken out if it failed to escape. Double 

 lines represent an interval of 24 hours. 



"Surely", Mr. Thorndike says, "if one and six 

 had possessed any power of inference they would not 

 have failed to get out after having done so several 

 times. Yet they did. If they had even once, much 

 less if they had six or eight times, inferred what was 

 to be done, they would have made the inference the 

 seventh or ninth time. And if there were in these 

 animals any power of inference, however rudimentary, 

 however sporadic, however dim, there should have 

 appeared among the multitude some cases where an 

 animal seeing through the situation , knows the proper 

 act, does it and from then on does it immediately upon 

 being confronted with the situation . . . Now the 



