The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals. Jr. James Weir

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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       PREFACE

       Conscious and Unconscious Mind

       The Senses in the Lower Animals

       Conscious Determination

       Memory

       The Emotions

       Æstheticism

       Parental Affection

       Reason

       Auxiliary Senses

       Letisimulation

       DAWN OF REASON

       MENTAL TRAITS IN THE LOWER ANIMALS

       INTRODUCTION.—CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS MIND

       CHAPTER I

       THE SENSES IN THE LOWER ANIMALS

       CHAPTER II

       CONSCIOUS DETERMINATION

       CHAPTER III

       MEMORY

       CHAPTER IV

       THE EMOTIONS

       CHAPTER V

       ÆSTHETICISM

       CHAPTER VI

       PARENTAL AFFECTION

       CHAPTER VII

       REASON

       CHAPTER VIII

       AUXILIARY SENSES

       CHAPTER IX

       LETISIMULATION

       CONCLUSION

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       INDEX

       ECONOMICS.

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PREFACE

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      Most works on mind in the lower animals are large and ponderous volumes, replete with technicalities, and unfit for the general reader; therefore the author of this book has endeavored to present the evidences of mental action, in creatures lower than man, in a clear, simple, and brief form. He has avoided all technicalities, and has used the utmost brevity consistent with clearness and accuracy. He also believes that metaphysics has no place in a discussion of psychology, and has carefully refrained from using this once powerful weapon of psychologists.

      Many of the data used by the authors of more pretentious works are second-hand or hearsay; the author of this treatise, however, has no confidence in the accuracy of such material, therefore he has not made use of any such data. His material has been thoroughly sifted, and the reader may depend upon the absolute truth of the evidence here presented.

      The author does not claim infallibility; some of his conclusions may be erroneous; he believes, however, that future investigation will prove the verity of every proposition that is advanced in this book. These propositions have been formulated only after a twenty-years study of biology in all of its phases.

      Some of the data used in this volume have appeared in Appleton's Popular Science Monthly, Lippincott's Magazine, Worthington's Magazine, New York Medical Record, Recreation, Atlantic Monthly, American Naturalist, Scientific American, Home Magazine, Popular Science News, Denver Medical Times, and North American Review; therefore the author tenders his thanks to the publishers of these magazines for their kindness in allowing him to use their property in getting out this work.

      "Waveland," Owensboro, Ky.,

       January 9, 1899.

Conscious and Unconscious Mind

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