26 The Animal Mind 



behavior will admit, always remembering that we may be 

 wrong in so doing, but resting assured that we are, upon the 

 whole, on the safer side. The social consciousness of man is 

 very strong, and his tendency to think of other creatures, 

 even of inanimate nature, as sharing his own thoughts and 

 feelings, has shown itself in his past to be almost irresistible. 

 Lloyd Morgan's canon offers the best safeguard against this 

 natural inclination, short of abandoning all attempt to study 

 the mental life of the lower animals. 



