This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ...perfection, continually making new discoveries and enlarging his stores of knowledge; all other animals remaining constantly confined within a limited circle, neither capable of invention, nor able to attain to greater perfection, always continuing at the same point, unable by application and exertion ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ...perfection, continually making new discoveries and enlarging his stores of knowledge; all other animals remaining constantly confined within a limited circle, neither capable of invention, nor able to attain to greater perfection, always continuing at the same point, unable by application and exertion to soar above other animals of the same species. Reason then has ever been regarded as the great point of distinction between man and the brute. Some attempts have been made to confound this reason with the instinct of animals, and to prove that instinct is a kind of reason. Although all philosophers admit that the enjoyment of reason is the chief and most important attribute of the human mind, it is curious to observe the various definitions given by writers to the same expression. One, considers it as a peculiar faculty of the mind belonging exclusively to man; another, describes it as an enlarged and complete manifestation of the faculty observed in a greater or less degree in all animals; and a third, as either a combination of the higher faculties of the mind, or the peculiar direction of them. In an examination of this subject a difficulty arises at the commencement; for how is the mental nature of man to be compared with the instinct of animals, unless as complete a knowledge of their internal sensations is possessed as of our own. This evidence is wanting, and therefore it is only by comparison that a correct opinion can be formed. If the effects are considered which result from the natural operations of both, a correct idea may be formed of the wide distinction existing between reason and instinct. A man, however stupid, is enabled to govern and subdue the most sagacious of animals; this he effects, not by the exercise of bodily...
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Add this copy of Interesting Facts Connected With the Animal Kingdom to cart. $40.00, fair condition, Sold by Thomas Dorn, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Canton, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1841 by London: Whittaker and Co. /T. Brooke and Co., 1841..
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1841, London: Whittaker and Co. /T. Brooke and Co., 1841.
Publisher:
London: Whittaker and Co. /T. Brooke and Co., 1841.
Published:
1841
Language:
English
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Fair. 8vo. xvi, [2], 301 pp., [1], [1] (list of plates), 3 plates one of which is fold-out, including frontispiece. Original green cloth. Lacking the fourthcalled for plate. Ex library (stamps frontis, title page and several in the text). Front cover almost detached, rear cover starting. Fair.