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The Story of the Mind

CHAPTER IV
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A bare distinction _of persons from things_ on the ground of peculiar pain-movement-pleasure experiences.2.A sense of the irregularity or capriciousness of the behaviour of these persons, which suggests _personal agency_.3.A distinction, vaguely felt perhaps, but wonderfully reflected in the child's actions, between the modes of behaviour or _personal characters_ of different persons.4.After his sense of his own agency arises by the process of imitation, he gets what is really _self-consciousness_ and _social feeling_.
[Footnote 2: It is very remarkable that in the child's bashfulness we find a native nervous response to the presence of persons.

And it is curious to note that, besides the general gregariousness which many animals have, they show in many instances special responses of the presence of creatures of their own kind or of other kinds.

Dogs seem to recognise dogs by _smell_.

So with cats, which also respond instinctively with strong repulsion to the smell of dogs.

Horses seem to be guided by _sight_.


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