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Page 45 - Cooperation is a voluntary act, and all the power in the world cannot make it compulsory; nor is it desirable that it should depend upon any power but its own.
Page 15 - We may say, then, that directly or indirectly the instincts are the prime movers of all human activity ; by the conative or impulsive force of some instinct (or of some habit derived from an instinct), every train of thought, however cold and passionless it may seem, is borne along towards its end, and every bodily activity is initiated and sustained.
Page 54 - We promise every assistance in the reorganization of the marketing system on sounder and more economical lines and, where diversification is needed, Government assistance during the period of transition. We favor adequate tariff protection to such of our agricultural products as are threatened by foreign competition.
Page 31 - No. 7. bands scattered over a wide territory gather in thousands ; they come together at a given place, for several days in succession, before they start, and they evidently discuss the particulars of the journey. Some species will indulge every afternoon in flights preparatory to the long passage. All wait for their tardy congeners, and finally they start in a certain wellchosen direction — a fruit of accumulated collective experience — the strongest flying at the head of the band, and relieving...
Page 28 - Social animals perform many little services for each other: horses nibble, and cows lick each other, on any spot which itches ; monkeys search each other for external parasites; and Brehm states that after a troop of the Cercopithecus griscoviridis has rushed through a thorny brake, each monkey stretches itself on a branch, and another monkey, sitting by, 'conscientiously' examines its fur, and extracts every thorn or burr.
Page 15 - The instinctive impulses determine the ends of all activities and supply the driving power by which all mental activities are sustained ; and all the complex intellectual apparatus of the most highly developed mind is but a means toward these ends, is but the instrument by which these impulses seek their satisfactions, while pleasure and pain do but serve to guide them in their choice of the means.
Page 16 - Take away these instinctive dispositions with their powerful impulses, and the organism would become incapable of activity of any kind ; it would lie inert and motionless like a wonderful clockwork whose mainspring had been removed or a steam-engine whose fires had been drawn.
Page 28 - Every sportsman knows . . . how difficult it is to approach animals in a herd or troop. Wild horses and cattle do not, I believe, make any dangersignal; but the attitude of any one of them who first discovers an enemy, warns the others. Rabbits stamp loudly on the ground with their hind-feet as a signal: sheep and chamois do the same with their forefeet, uttering likewise a whistle. Many birds, and some mammals, post sentinels, which in the case of seals are said generally to be the females.
Page 29 - They were again encouraged to the attack; but by this time all the baboons had reascended the heights, excepting a young one, about six months old, who, loudly calling for aid, climbed on a block of rock, and was surrounded. Now one of the largest males, a true hero, came down again from the mountain, slowly went to the young one, coaxed him, and triumphantly led him away — the dogs being too much astonished to make an attack.
Page 29 - Brehm encountered a great troop of baboons, who were crossing a valley : some had already ascended the opposite mountain, and some were still in the valley : the latter were attacked by the dogs, but the old males immediately hurried down from the rocks, and with mouths widely opened, roared so fearfully, that the dogs quickly drew back.