The statements about human nature made by psychologists are of two sorts,—statements about _consciousness_, about the inner life of thought and feeling, the ‘self as conscious,’ the ‘stream of thought’; and statements about _behavior_, about the life of man that is left unexplained by physics, chemistry, anatomy and physiology, and is roughly compassed for common sense by the terms ‘intellect’ and ‘character.’ Animal psychology shows the same double content. Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is to an outside observer.…
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