 | Jonathan Eric Adler, Catherine Z. Elgin - 2007 - 897 pages
...degree: this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and ler and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. For it is evident, we... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1873 - 800 pages
...degree, this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them ; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to. For, it is evident, we... | |
 | Deborah Legge - 2000 - 495 pages
...degree: this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas, is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes; and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to ... [But] if they have... | |
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If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas that way, to any degree: this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas, is that which puts a perfect... 
