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The makers of Encyclopædia Britannica bring you one of the Great Books of the Western World. This text captures major ideas, stories, and discoveries that helped shape Western culture.

possess the same fundamental properties? Does man differ from the others only in the degree to which he possesses some of these shared qualities? Some, like Darwin, think that “the difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. We have seen,” he writes, “that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention, curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient,
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