Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.