Also, in the tropics,
he has studied the lower types of man. Mr. Hornaday is a man of
experience and reputation. When he was asked if animals reasoned,
out of all his knowledge on the subject he replied that to ask him
such a question was equivalent to asking him if fishes swim. Now Mr.
Burroughs has not had much experience in studying the lower human
types and the higher animal types. Living in a rural district in the
state of New York, and studying principally birds in that limited
habitat, he has been in contact neither with the higher animal types
nor the lower human types. But Mr. Hornaday's reply is such a facer
to him and his homocentric theory that he has to do something. And
he does it. He retorts: "I suspect that Mr. Hornaday is a better
naturalist than he is a comparative psychologist." Exit Mr.
Hornaday. Who the devil is Mr. Hornaday, anyway? The sage of
Slabsides has spoken. When Darwin concluded that animals were
capable of reasoning in a rudimentary way, Mr. Burroughs laid him out
in the same fashion by saying: "But Darwin was also a much greater
naturalist than psychologist"--and this despite Darwin's long life of
laborious research that was not wholly confined to a rural district
such as Mr.
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