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older, willing to listen to reason, and at last be guided by 

 it. Does not this smack of human nature just a little ? 



So ended my camp experiences in the study of animal 

 intelligence. The results were all th'e same, whatever 

 forms of life I tested. Cunning, ingenuity, memory, all 

 were evidently features of their minds. I say " minds," 

 for I can think of no other word that meets the case. 

 How, indeed, can one creature outwit another ; how can 

 it plan to meet some desired end, new until then to its 

 experience ; how can it remember people, places, things — 

 unless it has what we call in ourselves a mind ? 



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