animal-world

Updated: May 25, 2025

We also notice the high development of hearing, sight, and other forms of perception among savages who live by their five senses rather than by their wits. When we descend to the animal-world we are confronted by cognitive faculties whose effects we see, but of whose precise nature we can form no conjecture whatever.

George Tyrrell - The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)

We are now going to study some of the wonderful works of God in the animal-world, and I hope to be able to tell you some interesting stories of what creatures who have not language, and cannot reason in the way in which we can, have been able to do by instinct and intelligence.

Caroline Pridham - Twilight and Dawn: Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation