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Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.
Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.
The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.