THE-:- HORSE 



direction. He now is turned into a lane not 

 far from and leading to his stable. At that 

 moment he shows that he wishes to accelerate 

 his pace and, with ears cocked forward, and 

 prancing, gives evidence of a strong desire to 

 move ahead. 



We here have the indications of a thought 

 on the part of the animal. What is the cause 

 of this thought? Analysis brings us to the 

 following conclusion: Through idea associa- 

 tion, made aware of the presence of the stable, 

 which is again associated with food, rest, free- 

 dom from equipment and so forth, the horse 

 is stimulated and encouraged to go ahead, 

 because now to his mind there is a definite 

 and desirable object in view. 



In like manner, a very thirsty horse hurries 

 to water. He has not the power to draw the 

 conclusion from the premises first, that he 

 wants water; secondly, that hurrying in the 

 right direction brings one to what is wanted 

 more quickly that hurrying in this way will 

 bring him more quickly to water. The fore- 

 going case is clearly deductive reasoning, em- 

 bodying the higher intellectual force of which 

 the human mind alone is capable. It is true 

 that the horse arrives at the same result that 

 deductive reasoning would bring, but he does 

 it in this way. He is instinctively drawn to 

 water by physical want. He remembers that 

 hurrying to water has actually brought him 



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