The work is really only a preliminary study, but it will be read with much interest by all students of comparative psychology.
It is clear that this is a matter rather of human than of animal or comparative psychology.
The difficulty of ascertaining whether intelligence has or has not been a factor is simply part of the inherent difficulty of comparative psychology--a difficulty on which sufficient stress has already been laid in an earlier chapter.
Now this notion, thus borrowed from natural science, for the purposes of a comparative psychology, seems well applicable to that pure feeling of infinite longing which is the most exalted of all man's aspirations.
And here, as in my former instances of comparative psychology, I do not wish to cast my glance downward longer than is necessary, but rather, as quickly as possible, to raise it upward again.
It will, moreover, furnish a new instance, to show how in nature herself there lies a cause, or at least a first occasion for many parallels of comparative psychology, similar to those which have already presented themselves.
Unfortunately, his premature decease prevented the completion of the great work which was to reconstruct every section of comparative psychology on the lines of monistic evolution.
For the profitable construction of comparative psychology it is extremely important not to confine the critical comparison to man and the brute in general, but to put side by side the innumerable gradations of their mental activity.
For laboratory courses in Comparative Psychology or Comparative Physiology it well might hold the place which the frog now holds in courses in Comparative Anatomy.
Consequently, the distinction which, on grounds of comparative psychology, appears to me so obvious and so necessary—i.
Morshead, in an essay on Comparative Psychology, Journ.
They also prove to us that there is such a thing as comparative psychology, a psychology of animals.
Like Lubbock, the lecturer and others, they advocate a comparative psychology of the invertebrates and convincingly demonstrate the existence of psychic faculties in these animals.
I beg your indulgence for this lengthy introduction to my subject, but it seemed necessary that we should come to some understanding concerning the validity of comparative psychology.
It will thus be apparent that the present volume, while complete in itself as a statement of the facts of Comparative Psychology, has for its more ultimate purpose the laying of a firm foundation for my future treatise on Mental Evolution.
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