One of the many delusions engendered by our human self-conceit
and habit of considering the world as only such as we know
it from our human point of view, is that of supposing human
intelligence to be the only kind of intelligence in existence.
The fact is, that what we call the lower animals have special
intelligence of their own as far transcending our intelligence
as our peculiar reasoning intelligence exceeds theirs. We are
as incapable of following the track of a friend by the smell of
his footsteps as a dog is of writing a metaphysical treatise.
(Text.)--W. MATTIEU WILLIAMS, “Science in Short
Chapters.”
(1649)
=Intelligence in Creation=--See DESIGN IN NATURE.
=Intelligence in Rooks=--See ENEMIES, AVOIDING.