"THINKING" ANIMALS
A Critical Discussion of Developments from 1914 to 1919
BY
DR. WILLIAM MACKENZIE
OF GENOA
[Translated from the Italian with the omission of
| I. An Introductory Section, and |
| II. A Section giving the Story of "Lola.">[ |
III. THE HYPOTHESIS OF INTELLIGENCE IN ANIMALS
Assuming, as I have done, and as I think I must do, that we have not here to do with a trick or fraud, we seem to be dreaming, or to be reading the account of a dream. Those poor horses of Elberfeld, so greatly extolled and so much discussed in their day, are not in the same field with Lola. And yet I am convinced that it is not a dream. It is another kind of psychological reality, but it is a reality probably too complex to be reduced to a single formula. Let us then try to face the facts.